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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Interior & Equipment => Topic started by: Buddy on December 08, 2010, 07:28:33 pm
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I am building a system for my truck, I am putting in a 12" sub in the back reg cab along with 2 6x9's as well as a 4 channel amp (this is what i am told I need) I am also installing 2 front 3.5" dash speakers. I am having the guy at the shop install all of this. My question is that I had to modify the back of the truck to get my sub box to fit. Just notched out a small section of the rounded lip under the rear window. Didn't do a hack job took my time molded a new peice in its place etc. But I am 6'4" so I have to have my seat all the back. have purchased a shallow sub for this along with a shollaw box but the sub is going to be right up agaisnt the back of my seat at the top. It is just going to touch a tad. My question is this... how bad is this going to sound now. The guy at the stereo shop tells me its going to sound great and that it wont hurt a thing to be touching the seat. I am just wondering if he is blowing smoke or is he telling me the turth!
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If the cone of the woofer is impacting anything while in use, the lower frequencies will be drowned out and the upper frequencies(for a sub) will sound muffled. but as long as the cone does NOT touch anything it will sound fine.
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Yea man we put subs facing downwards 2-3 inches from the floor sometimes down here in the back of SUV's, and cars, it does a good job of keeping stuff from going through the face of them haha.
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Ok thanks , now what about the rest of the system with the 6x9 and the front 3.5" and a 4 channel amp and a 12" sub. will all of this together sound good.
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the 3.5 will get alot of distortion if you do not put a filter on it. I would recommend a 600-800hz high pass, or leave them out completely and use the kick panel or door panel speaker pods and 6.5"s.
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Yes they guy told me he would be installing caps on the front speakers. i think that stops all bass going to them
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I would run a seperate amp fot the mid/high range speakers and another for the sub, it will be mich easier to balance out the system and run the speakers as designed.
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Yea I seen a slick installation of 6x9's behind the vents in the door in a mag article I had seen on 73-87.com(I think its ok to put that website on here?)
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73-87.com is Bigblock73's site.
will all of this together sound good.
That all depends on what kind of music you're going to play ;D
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2 amps is a good idea. That way you can bridge the channels on the sub amp(for a single sub), and set the amp for low frequencies(most if not all amps have built in equalizer-type controls), then set the other amp for highs and it should sound pretty good.
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Honestly you should look for a mono block amp instead of bridging it together.
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Ok this is what I think i am going to do now, I am going to run a separte amp for the sub and another one for the speakers. last night i [picked up a 1 channels amp for the sub.
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Ok this is what I think i am going to do now, I am going to run a separte amp for the sub and another one for the speakers. last night i [picked up a 1 channels amp for the sub.
exactly, and your four channel will work great on the rest of the speakers.