Distortion caused by sub.

[drzachm]

When I got a loud beat goin from my sub, it distorts my speakers up front. I have aftermarket speakers btw. My friend said a capacitator would fix that and the dimming of my lights but I'm not so sure. Maybe the dimming but I'm not sure about the distortion. Anything else I could do?

[honda83]

Bass will not do anything to your front speakers. u must have your Lows on your radio up . you know how it goes from -6 to +6 (on most radios) you must have it on + something . that means bass going thru your door speakers espically if you have your speakers straight to the radio and not using a amp to power them up. lower your Lows and put your mid and Highs all the way up. put your lows to 0. and put your trebble to +4. or the highiest it goes. also put your Load on high. (am going if u have a pioneer radio) then u will be fine.

yes and use a cap for your diming light. cap is only used for high bass on a short period of time.the cap stores energy and releases it when the high bass comes out.

[Mealsy]

If your speakers are running through an amp make sure all the settings are good.

[Akira_kj]

Capasitor helps alittle with dimming, getting a new alternator and battery would fix it completely. or go to a HID system. uses 35w and wont dim with your bass. Then again a heavy amp will draw enuf to actualy pull your RPMs down when idling. All a Cap does is act like a rechargable battery inline with your amp. It stores and discharges when the amp draws alot.... like when you song changes and there isnt any bass and all the sudden it hits hard. If your getting dimming with a constant bass and not just when you go from 3 or 4 second of no bass then bass all the sudden a cap isnt going to fix much your still not generating enuf amps to power your amp even with a cap you would still see dimming the cap would just make it less ovious. If this is the case GET A NEW ALTERNATOR AND GOOD BATTERY. there are some High output alternators on ebay for round 160 i think. That should cover it with ease.



Distortion in your front speakers is cause of 2 much bass going to them from your head unit.

Get better front speakers or turn UP your amp and turn DOWN your headunit's bass setting.

I run alot of accesorys. Alot of lights. And a Big amp and speakers. A new alternator and good quality battery helps alot.

[dbsharp]

what are thoes huge things in your bumper? flood lights? and yea you have too much power goin to your speakers or your pushing your head unit too far.

[Smokinspeeds]

the last person was the closest. all the other stuff is more advanced but to simply answer your question, you are putting out more from your headunit than it's meant to push. Turn your bass down on the headunit, or whatever 'loud' or 'superbass' mode it may have. If you need more from your sub then you may need a better amp. Distortion kills speakers, and distortion is from forcing an amp (headunit's amp or a separate amp) to push more than it's capable causing clipping of waves, which is death to speakers. If you HAVE to have everything louder, put your door and deck speakers on a good 4ch amp. Ask or research on good 4ch's. Any amp will usually put out more than a headunit...

[drzachm]

Thanks guys. I got some pretty good kicker front speakers. the dimming wasn't the issue, bc my lights dont dim very much at all. you can barely tell. but the distortion is pretty annoying. thanks again for the info.

[Smokinspeeds]

no prob man now you know for now and later what to do. Btw you are in oklahoma right? Check out the link in my sig for this big meet we are having

[defjamon22z]

fuck capacitors.. buy 2 yellow top battery and ur good for wuteva the hell u got. max juice.

[drzachm]

Shit man, wish I still lived in San Antonio, I'd hit that up for sure. Unfortunately, 7 hour drive and all...

[Wagon Daddy]

It doesn't seem like power is the issue. I don't think providing more electricity via a battery, etc will help. What is your setup? Do you have separate amplifiers for the front and subs? Does your head unit have a crossover? It seems like the issue is improper management of frequencies to inappropriate speakers.

I think the capacitors that were mentioned in an earlier post were not the type used for voltage regulation, but are the type intended for frequecy filtering to high pass speakers. It is commonly used in audio of all sorts in the internal designs of 2 way or more speakers. You don't want bass going to the tweets, so you use a cap (using a chart to determine what size based upon voltage and desired filter level). If you don't want highs going to the sub, you use coils (again actual size depends). The caps that would be used as passive high pass filters for this application would be about the size of a double A battery.

-c

[Smokinspeeds]

Shit man, wish I still lived in San Antonio, I'd hit that up for sure. Unfortunately, 7 hour drive and all...

I'm not in S.A. I'm in dallas about 3-4 hours from Austin (meets in austin not sa) as are a lot of the guys going, another guy from louis is coming, another guy from possibly kentucky is coming if he can get someone to drive with, I think there should be at least one or two from oklahoma that are thinking of coming, one came to an accord meet in dallas here a year or so back. But oh well later on the bug will bite so maybe a meet next year lol.

[blue93cb]

...again too much bass on the front speakers. Most door speakers just do not produce enough bass for most people. And the midbass gets distorted if the volume or bass level is too high. I love my HU because I have a 3rd preout channel that enables me to turn up the bass without effecting the in car speakers. I usually set the bass to flat or sometimes -2 depending on music. This way I can hear the vocals with the windows open at 65mph clearly.

[Smokinspeeds]

...again too much bass on the front speakers. Most door speakers just do not produce enough bass for most people. And the midbass gets distorted if the volume or bass level is too high. I love my HU because I have a 3rd preout channel that enables me to turn up the bass without effecting the in car speakers. I usually set the bass to flat or sometimes -2 depending on music. This way I can hear the vocals with the windows open at 65mph clearly.

wow, I have no headunit just a cd player hooked up to an amp and I can hear at clear vocals at about... 95 +

[drzachm]

Well i dont want bass coming in through my front speakers. my setup is as follows:

2 Kicker 195 w front speakers (55 rms)
2 Alpine 250 w rear speakers (60 rms)
pioneer headunit
kicker L5 900 w sub
kicker amp 600.1

i cant figure out how to make it stop. ive listened to it, and it doesnt sound like im getting any bass from them, its just that when the bass is up real high in the trunk, my speakers start to distort everytime theres a heavy thud from the L5. its only noticable at high volumes or when my sub is turned up extra loud. i can turn my sub up without turning the actual HU volume up also blue93cb. ive gona all through my cd player looking for settings and shit like that. but cant find anything.