Bass boost question.

[fuggnore]

alright, ive herd from many sorces BASS BOOST IS BAD!. now yesterday when i was useing the dmm to dial in everything on my amp i noticed without a little bass boost i cant get the voltage i want going to the sub with out having the gain almost all the way up. so i have my gain a little less then 3/4 full and i have my bass boost up like a sixteenth. (very small) is this alright? the sub dosent sound like its clipping or anything. and also, when i dialed everything in everything on my headunit was flat. and after the amp was adjusted i changed some things on the head unit settings. like lowered the bass going to the speakers, well the bass at my sub dropped a little so i turned up the subwoofer level on my headunit. was this alright also?

[Rebel4055]

What's your LP set to?

[speedball1978]

set your lp on your headunit to 50 hz

[Guest]

set your subwoofer level on the headunit all the way up then retune your gains with a DMM and you should be good. i noticed you have a kenwood headunit so i know for a fact they have one and it goes up to +15. at 3/4 volume, i think its around 26-27, my headunit outputted about a half a volt (2v preouts) and it didnt start to boost up the preout voltage till about volume 29-30. i retuned gains at volume 34 which is clip free (35 clips). thats just a tip if you get a mids and highs amp and you want to get all the voltage you can out of the headunit.

[fuggnore]

set your lp on your headunit to 50 hz

the lowest i can go on the head unit is 80HZ i belive. maybe its 50. but whatever it is i got that all the way down. do you thing i should mess with the LP on the amp?

[fuggnore]

set your subwoofer level on the headunit all the way up then retune your gains with a DMM and you should be good. i noticed you have a kenwood headunit so i know for a fact they have one and it goes up to +15. at 3/4 volume, i think its around 26-27, my headunit outputted about a half a volt (2v preouts) and it didnt start to boost up the preout voltage till about volume 29-30. i retuned gains at volume 34 which is clip free (35 clips). thats just a tip if you get a mids and highs amp and you want to get all the voltage you can out of the headunit.

yeah my radio is exactly like that haha. but okay ill try that. my amp isnt getting hot or anything being that high but i dont really like knowing its up that high. gotta love phenoix gold =]

[R_Mac_1]

Don't set your LP to 50. 70 to 8O is better.

Like he said above, put your sub level all the way up. You want your HU to put out as many volts as possible which will in turn allow you to keep your gain lower at the amp, and bass boost down.

Edited August 11, 2010 by R_Mac_1

[corteznewbie]

no to steal the light but if ya have a deck w/ a adjustable eq that has a 100hz min. where should that be set +10? 0 or in the minus area i have abass boost on deck that goes to +6

[skittlesRgood]

yeah my radio is exactly like that haha. but okay ill try that. my amp isnt getting hot or anything being that high but i dont really like knowing its up that high. gotta love phenoix gold =]

turning the gain up doesnt mean its working harder or anything. its just matching the amp with the input voltage. if the input voltage was .2v you better believe the gain would be all the way up. and likewise if you had 10v going through the rcas you could have the gain all the way down and still clip.

so dont worry about it

Edited August 11, 2010 by skittlesRgood

[R_Mac_1]

no to steal the light but if ya have a deck w/ a adjustable eq that has a 100hz min. where should that be set +10? 0 or in the minus area i have abass boost on deck that goes to +6

Bass boost should be off. EQ should be flat (0).