Amp Question

[GoatBeard]

I finally got my amp hooked in today.  I'm running a couple of 6.5" speakers and a couple of 6x9" speakers off the 4 channel amp.  I am running a couple of 3.5" speakers in the dash off the head unit.

The stereo sounds pretty good.  Dang thing is loud.  I can turn my HU up all the way and it doesn't distort.  But I did run into a problem and I thought I'd ask you guys what I should do...

The problem is those dash speakers are SUPER loud!  Holy crap.  They pretty much drown everything else out.  So when you are sitting in the driver's seat the 3.5" dash speakers hooked to the head unit simply overpower everything else.  It's probably because they are so close to your ears compared to the other speakers.

I am hoping that maybe I could unhook one set of the 4 RCA jacks and it'd tie the 4 amped speakers together on one part of the HU fader -- this would (theoretically) make the dash speakers on the other part of the fader.  If I could figure out how to do this I could fade some of the sound away from the dash speakers and more to the amped speakers making everything more balanced.  Right now all 4 RCA jacks are hooked up and I think this makes the fader work from front to back (like it's supposed to).  Is it possible to get the dash speakers set up where they fade separate from the amped speakers?

Thanks!

[roadrage41]

id disconnect the dash speakers altogether and see how much sound you lose.

theres a couple of ways to do this but theyre all going to affect the sound adversely. you could get rca y splitters and run bot rca inputs off of the rear set of rca's, and then fade the h/u to the back some.... maybe move the 3.5's to the 4x10 slot in a home made bracket thus giving you a sort of center channel, and probably better staging...

i dont know as much about car audio as i used to, been alot of innovations since i messed with it heavily, but i can jury rig things like no other.

[GoatBeard]

The 3.5s are in the center slot in a custom bracket.

I was also thinking that maybe I could get an RCA splitter that has 1 pair on one end and 2 pairs on the other end.  I just don't know if channel A and channel B on the amp have to have RCAs plugged into them for them both to work.

I might be able to also turn up the power going to the amped speakers to match the dash speakers -- would that work? 

[Irish_Alley]

i have always ran just the rear speakers on a amp and the front just to the hu then fade to the rear

[GoatBeard]

I got it.  I just had to turn up the input level on the amped speakers to match the dash speakers.

I guess that's pretty dumb, but I've never done this stuff before.  Heh.