hey i need help with the settings on my deck and amp. I have 2 kenwood 12" subs with a kenwood 1000W amp. I also have a alpine deck. On my amp what should the bass boost level be(0-18)? the LPF frequency(40-200)? and last the input sensitivity(5min-0.2max)? Also on the deck what should the settings be. Bass control-60Hz, 80, 100, or 200? bass band width- 1 narrow-4 wide? bass level~ -7 ~ +7? Treble frquency- 10.0kHz, 12.5, 15.0, 17.5? treble level~ -7~ +7? subs -15 ~ +15?
sorry for being a noob but it would be great if someone knows good settings for the best sound. if it helps i want them to pound but not blow
i have this in the Audio/Video/Electronics forums but i really want to change the settings before i go out tonight and thats like right now.....
thanks
its basically based on the way you like to listen to your music. I tune my deck and subwoofers to work with all of my music with mild adjustments. The only adjustment I need to make at this point between certain songs is what level the sub needs to be at, I too have an alpine head unit. I like lower frequency bass, to me it sound much more clean... So here are my settings
On your amp: If you want a lot of bass, what you do is put on a song that pushes hard at the subs, then you adjust that bass level and turn it up until you start hearing distortion, I would put it at about 12-14 somewhere around there, turn it up high because you can always reduce the level at your pleasure on your head unit
LPF - I have mine set at about 60
Input Sensitivity - this is harder to determine, primarily because its based on how much signal the CD you are playing actually gives off, and every record company tunes their CD's their own ways, you are best off setting it right before the middle and forgetting it.
Deck:
Bass frequency should probably be about 80Hz, and I would suggest you leave your level at about 0 or 1. Because that Bass level actually will boost your speakers along with your sub, which means when your speakers start clipping/distorting, and your sub to banging really hard, you wont hear your speakers potentially blowing. Its better to not let the door speakers do the talking bass wise, and leave that up to the sub, that is, untill you upgrade your door speakers and if you ever decide to run them off a separate amp. Set your band width at about 2.
As for your treble, this is what I love about alpine headunits, the quality from them is just rediculious, you can turn that treble up so high it makes stock speakers sound like friggan component systems. But of course, high treble just distorts from the true quality of the sound. Set your treble level at about 5 or 6 and the frequency at 12.5K Hz
Bass level, basically this allows you to adjust how loud your sub is, without having to open your trunk and do it from the amp manually. While some people wont agree with screwing with the Sub level on your headunit, I dont see any problem with it. I set my sub level at about 10 and forget it. That way its not too loud on rock/classic rock music, and on things like techno/rap/drum and bass music, it will hit nice and hard.
Hope that helps, those are the settings I like to use on my system, and I get a lot of complements... that is until my tool box rammed into my sub
Oh well, I have a 12 inch JL coming my way
thats what I spoke of when I was talking about clipping. You would be surprised how many people install subs, poorly configure them and think that while clipping it sounds amazing. That is now how my sub sounded because that sounds like horse poop.
OH! and BTW, DO NOT turn on the "Loudness" feature while running a subwoofer, that has great potential to cause clipping, which sounds like balls. Only use Loudness if just running door speakers.
k thx ^.^
