Update!!!

[jacketfan89]

Okay,

Well, So far I've got my amp mounted, my rear speakers and my front passenger door woofer and tweeter mounted and wired to the amp, and the amp all hooked up to those three speakers. The sound is very full, but I can't tell exactly how good it is without the woofer and tweeter on the driver side.

I didn't take any install pics because the install took MUCH MUCH longer than I thought it would due to tough to remove factory speakers. I did have a few more questions.

Firstly, when I try to fade to the front speakers, I can still hear sound in the back, even if I fade them all the way to the front...is that normal? Remember that my channel one (front drive speaker) still isn't hooked up. That may be the cause.

Now I do have low pass/ high pass filters, but the amp is only run to my interior speakers. Channel one and two are front left and right and three and four are rear left and right. Should I leave the filters off or is there a specific way I should tune them to increase the efficiency/ sound quality of my amp?

Lastly, what is the best way to fine tune my gain with a four channel amp. I can only control the gain on the fronts and the backs, not each channel by itself, but still right now my rears sound REALLY loud and my fronts, I can barely hear.

I will take some final install pics later, before I put the rear deck back on.

[MrSo0h0o]

Originally Posted by jacketfan89

Okay,

Well, So far I've got my amp mounted, my rear speakers and my front passenger door woofer and tweeter mounted and wired to the amp, and the amp all hooked up to those three speakers. The sound is very full, but I can't tell exactly how good it is without the woofer and tweeter on the driver side.

I didn't take any install pics because the install took MUCH MUCH longer than I thought it would due to tough to remove factory speakers. I did have a few more questions.

Firstly, when I try to fade to the front speakers, I can still hear sound in the back, even if I fade them all the way to the front...is that normal? Remember that my channel one (front drive speaker) still isn't hooked up. That may be the cause.
this is normal.

Now I do have low pass/ high pass filters, but the amp is only run to my interior speakers. Channel one and two are front left and right and three and four are rear left and right. Should I leave the filters off or is there a specific way I should tune them to increase the efficiency/ sound quality of my amp?
What HU unit are you running? Some HU's have onboard crossovers that make it easier to pinpoint the point you want the frequencies to cross over. In general, i would put the HPF on the fronts set at 80hz or 125hz, depending on how heavy you want the fronts to sound bass-wise. Sometimes if you XO at 80hz, the bass will make your doors rattle too much. As for the rear speakers, it depends on what you want out of them. If you dont care too much about your sound stage(where the music seems to be coming from) then i would leave them full range. If you do care, i would try and fade almost all the way to the front and put the LPF on the rears set at the same point your fronts are XO'ed at.
Lastly, what is the best way to fine tune my gain with a four channel amp. I can only control the gain on the fronts and the backs, not each channel by itself, but still right now my rears sound REALLY loud and my fronts, I can barely hear.
First turn your gain down all the way. Then turn your HU up to 75% volume. Then turn your gain up slowly until you can hear the signal "clip" or sound poor. Once it "clips", turn the gain down just a bit and you are set. As for the rears, i would keep the gain down on them as much as possible.

I will take some final install pics later, before I put the rear deck back on.
Can't wait lol.

[jacketfan89]

I'm running a Sony GTX-520. I had the 510 in my civic but the 520 gave me a subwoofer output while the 510 did not. I'm going to go hook up my last speaker right now. Plan on some pics later tonight.

[thapranksta]

got pics?