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Posted: September 16, 2004 at 9:32 PM / IP Logged

I have a pickup that i still have the stock speakers in. and when i turn the bass up on the deck to get more performance out of my subs it makes my fronts sound like crap cause theres so much bass going through them. What is the best way to take the bass out of just the the fronts and not the subs. (the fronts are directly out of the deck.) what is best:like a filter, a crossover or what?

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Posted: September 16, 2004 at 9:57 PM / IP Logged

You could install an inline bass blocker. Like these:

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Posted: September 16, 2004 at 10:12 PM / IP Logged

sorry, i forgot i installed some stinger bass blockers and they didnt help hardly enough to even notice (total waste of $10.00) what else could i do?

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Posted: September 16, 2004 at 10:32 PM / IP Logged

Turn the gain up on the sub. If you want you can get an electroni crossover unit too and fine tune the high/mid/low frequencies.

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Posted: September 16, 2004 at 11:24 PM / IP Logged

or, get bass blockers that will block the right frequencies. u might have gotten some for really low or really high bass.

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Posted: September 17, 2004 at 1:47 AM / IP Logged

buy an EQ and pump 8-12volts into your speakers (if it has that kind of feature), and beable to control all the frequencies and not just the bass. i wouldnt know how good music could sound in a car without an EQ,

thats my opinion, more expensive but then you get what you pay for

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If you've already correctly installed bass blockers on the front speakers, my bet is it's not the fronts that are putting out too much bass. It's more likely resonance through the door panels from the subs. Bass blockers are made with about a 300 Hz cutoff minimum at 4 ohms, which would cut out all the bass. More expensive capacitors could select freqs below that, but you wouldn't get a pair of Stingers at $10 if they blocked lower freqs. So, the indication is the need for damping on the door panels, and rigid mounting for the fronts. The other possibility is that you installed the blockers incorrectly, and could that be the case?

Other than those, if the gains are not set right, you could be introducing distortion when you turn up the volume, too. So check that again as well.

Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

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stevdart wrote:

Other than those, if the gains are not set right, you could be introducing distortion when you turn up the volume, too. So check that again as well.

I think this is more than likely the problem.

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Posted: September 17, 2004 at 8:21 AM / IP Logged

Oh, I just reread the original post...the fronts are directly out of the deck. In this case, it's most likely distortion caused by the deck not having enough power at those volumes. Along with the resonance through the doors from the subs. Consider an amp for the mains, then, as well as the damping I touched on earlier.

Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

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