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Personally, I would just buy a head unit for cheap on CL (just enough to get proper RCA outs and possibly USB input)
I mean, $20-$50 is not much if you think about it.
A line out converter is how much? Money that you could put towards a head unit.....
Best buy/frys and others do financing as well...which makes it a lot cheaper.
Alternatively, you can just hook up an mp3 player directly to the amps...this only works if you have both amps near each other and you have highs and lows on amps, otherwise, I don't see the point of putting just the sub on it...
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Thinking about getting this.
Anyone use it/have it?
$150 at walmart, $170 at best buy (both claim normally $250+)
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ahhh! where did you stay out here?
Smoov-E from Tenn? Naw he from Sebastopol
san ho
he says he's "from Tennessee and moved to cali not by choice" in decapitation with x-raided
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LMFAO! Finally somebody on here who knows Smoov-E! N your from Illinois, that's whatsup
Well, actually I just moved to IL from cali...haha
Smoov e IS from Tennessee though...
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haha remembered to check my itunes
Crest Creepaz ft. Dubee - So Stupid
thank you!
Now I'm looking like smoov e in your avatar
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It's pretty simple really
You just have to open the entire thing up (just like a car to install speakers/run wire)
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reminds me of that eminem video that busta rymes copied too
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I can't find it anywhere
Lyrics go:
Keep grinding finding doin my thang
I'm a turf talk nigga go beats go savvage
right there janny auto, mark and hannage (lol this sounds stupid but I can't remember the exact words)
damn as I tucked up when I go savvage
cause nigga you cabbage like colonel sanders
see him over there, with the, stunna glasses
high as a laugh you ass
blast
..nigga I kick yo ass
I do that, hammer tuck rocks I do that
its all turf shit boy thought yall knew that
know I skipped some parts cause I can't remember them very well.
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This makes me appreciate Dr. Dre's old stuff, which I am going to be bumping in honor of when he made good music.
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don't mean to hijack the thread but quick question:
I have an oldschool mtx thunder 5000 8ohm 250w rms 10" sub.
Could I run it on an amp that is 4 ohms or 2 ohms?
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1:45 meth and weed in action
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guys, itunes has the converter. just right click the song and hit convert to mp3. you have to got to advanced at the top and click convert to mp3 first. or just click convert to mp3 up there.
mpeg-4 is a video format
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Do you want a car audio amp or a home theater amp. And what is your budget, classify cheapest.
car amp. and when i say cheapest i mean if its 10$ then great. lowest i have found was 40 dollar lightning audio.
Now that's just garbage.
Don't waste that $40 when you can put that towards something better.
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If you live near frys, go for crunch
I had it pushing a db1212 box + sub and it did well.
BOSS AUDIO CW2000M
$70, 1000w rms 2 ohms
500w rms 4 ohms
http://www.frys.com/product/6438982
Crunch GPV1000.2
500w rms @ 4ohms bridged
$100
http://www.frys.com/product/5987114?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
That's about it. Decent wattage too, 500w RMS. My sub/amp is 500w and it hits pretty hard.
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OK so I analyzed beamer benz or bentley
It hits 29hz and then peaks at 46hz
Can anyone explain this?
my box is supposedly tuned to 30hz, which would be a reasonable explanation for it being one of the hardest hitting songs I have played.
but I'm at a loss for the 46hz part.
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The same as you did with the RCAs, except on the opposite side.
I didn't run the power wire, the guys at the shop did. I still don't know how to fish the power wire.
Hole saw & a grommet. If Im reading this correct your battery is on the drivers side so there for run power/remote on drivers side. RCAs on passanger side. The reason you do this is 1.because the longer your wires/RCA's the more resistance you're going to have. And 2. You can have the best shielded RCA's in the world but if they're run next to power (Even a remote power wire) you'll get interference.
Well the battery is on the passenger side. so that's why I want to move the power wire over and not the RCA's.
17 feet of 8awg is ok for 500w right? or should I get 4awg? I think the amp takes 4awg. and if it doesn't, I have a 4 to 8 distributor
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yea put the power on the side with the battery. if you have to make your own hole through the firewall its not that big of a deal. but i have experienced the difference, my first system i ran all the wires taped together on the same side and got interference, not a lot but it was there, then i learned thats why and i switched the wires and no more interference...
I wanted the idiots at the shop to run the power wire under the car but they insisted on running next to the RCA's which I already ran myself.
How would I find the right place on the passenger side for the power wire? Anyone done it before on a 96-ish jimmy/sonoma? There is a small hole on the floor that leads to some white material which seems hard to fish anything through.
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When they say songs have diff amplitudes they mean their db level. Some songs are 15db which is pretty low, some louder songs are in the 18-21 range (untouched, original) and if you look to a bass cd like Bass Mekanic or better yet listen to Decaf's stuff that he does (slows songs a bit and lowers frequencies so he can boost the bass w/o clipping) and his shit will be 25-30 range (IIRC). Louder db of the bass note=louder bass line
Now you take a loud db level of the bass line and mix that with your box tuning and even cabin gain and you will get a loud ass bass
To find out the Frequency and DB level of song do this:
1. Open Audacity & Load up song
2. Click view then Zoom In, you want it to show 1:00 then two marks (for 05/10) then 1:15
3. Highlight w/e part of the song with the bass only do it for 5 secs of time. At the bottom of the program it says Selection: and shows the time
4. Analyze, plot spectrum and change 512 to 16384 & Linear to log
5. Now when you move your cursor over the highest peak and line the cross directly with the white line it will say the db level, you can move towards the right and it will pick up the diff peaks, for songs that have multiple bass notes in the 5 sec span you selected (pic below of what I'm talking about, 41hz @ 22db)
Then after that you can go to Edit>Select All then Bass Boost and type in the frequency and by how much, if the song is say 41hz @ 15db go to bass boost and type in 41hz then boost 3-4db BUT NOTE this may cause some clipping...I did this successfully for Gudda Gudda & Lil Wayne's song "I Dont Like the Look Of It (Willy Wonka)" since it was like 15db I boosted cleanly to 18 or 19db and it hits harder now.
Thanks I will definitely mess around with that.
Yesterday I managed to boost the bass on some songs and took clipping out as well.
Now I'm going to remove clipping from all the songs that I'm going to play loud
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1. how much will it run me to get extra, for example, 50 feet
2. how much would it cost to get exact what I need (10-20 feet)
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Sounds like pinching rather than interference. Make sure your brake pedal isnt pinching any wires. If you dont see anything, just go ahead and switch over the RCAs (I have my RCAs and remote running right up the middle of my car on two separate side of my center console and have no inference there). Only switch over your power if you plan on cutting off the excess you mentioned.
it's definitely not pinching. I ran all the wires myself and watched the idiots at the shop run the power wire.
It's either getting interference from the RCA/power or the ground sucks
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still wouldnt care, all thats important is the lesson learned
just dont punch babies
What if he was charged for punching babies, would you still not care?
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ive done a lot of searching in that same price range without much luck. i think some companies have an add-on for their multimeters that have an oscope function but im not 100% sure. someone posted this scope but i never followed up if they got it or not.
Hmm I might get that.
velleman oscopes are only about $200 and ive seen some guys on here using them. as oscope produces the sine wave of an audio signal onto a digital screen so you can see a smooth or clipped signal. steve has some great vids about this in the amplifier section.
what's the cheapest one I can get that isn't complete garbage?
$50 is about what I would like to pay, maybe $60...
good luck trying to find one for that price. and an O-Scope is the only true way to tune your system to know whether you are clipping or not. 12/14 on your phone volume doesn't matter, your head unit will clip after a certain volume level on it, even if your phone is only 12/14.. Just because you don't hear distortion, doesn't mean you're not clipping.
Well the only way to tell is to get an oscope :\
Just to touch a few things you said. Set your eq flat. Then set your amp gains. This way say some songs have a shitload of bass. You could THEN turn your bass down -1 or -2 and then songs with less bass or whatever you could keep at 0 since that is where you set your gains at. Set everything flat. Set the gains. Then if something needs adjusted go - on the eq. Turning anything up is very likely to cause a clipped signal. And also. Don't turn your radio volume up to 40/40. Try 32/40. Also by doing this. If some songs are a little quieter then other you can go to 33-34 and get a little of the difference back. Once you start cranking stuff stuff doesn't play right and doesn't play for long.
The EQ on the head unit? It only has presets as far as I know. It's at flat, always has been. It's the only one that has decent treble and doesn't boost the bass ridiculously
I've already set my amp gains and they are right where I want them. The idiots at the shop had them turned way too high and it was overpowering the highs.
Nobody read that the phone is at 12/14?? Doesn't that count for something? If I turn the phone to 13 or 14 it DOES distort the highs.
Anyways, toot it and boot it WAS clipping. I opened it up with audacity and it hit the red - btw, does it stay red the whole song if it clipped once? Would it be ok to just walk away, come back in 3 minutes when the song is finished playing and find the red marker there still, indicating the song has clipped at one point or another?
And where can I get an oscilloscope, what does it do, how much are they and how do I use it?
im pretty sure flat is a preset but since you said your treble is +5/+7 i assume that changes the flat preset, flat the way i understand sets everything to 0, which is where you want it to set your gains
someone confirm or deny, im noob so probably shoudlnt give advice, lol
Yeah but I turned the bass down to -7 so the highs don't distort...
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dont care what you did, just happy it might be over and hopefully it becomes an experience for the better
What if he was the car audio thief king? would you still not care?
Amp going into protection after a few seconds
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Are you saying that you can feel the bass less when you turn it up higher and higher?
IDK what it's called, but at 10-20 I can feel the bass a little, then I turn it up and I have to almost max out the head unit to really feel the bump..
there is like a space in between...idk