My advice is don't stop until you solve all the issues with the blazer not only do you learn but you will feel accomplished, if sell it before you master it you will be haunted by what ifs. Master it and then sell it to start a new project with confidence. Just my opinion. Gret vid and thanks for sharing.
It's actually hit or miss with Pioneer head units. They do have clean signal but alot of them distort at or near max volume. Kenwood Excelon and Sony are clean and distortion free all the way to max volume and that's why I run Kenwood Excelon.
From a basshead who has switched vehicles. I wish I would of just rebuilt because all the deadener, wiring, and all the other hidden things are already done..the only plus from my point of view is more space..blazer to Tahoe
Get rid of the RCA split and get a DSP. I did the same thing with my build and it fixed alot of things sonically. One thing I would say that you're doing wrong is changing the max volume of your system to set your gains. The gains should be set at the same volume level (with no distortion) so they are consistent across the board. I use a MiniDSP DSP in my setup (as you saw from the last time I was at Slam) but Dayton Audio has a nice one and of course Audio Control. Also I would not use the crossovers on your head unit or on the amps to set your hpf/lpf, let the DSP do all of that for you. You have a great system build and I'm sure that once you get everything set up correctly that it will sound better and be louder than you could've ever imagined. Don't sell the Blazer!! Get with Jason and Bill for suggestions as well and don't forget about us in the Audiopipe Facebook group, we all want to see you do well. Bass on bro!
Don't sell it. You will regret it, ive been there and more than once. Im actually doing the rebuild on the 1 I sold most recently. Its good to know its gonna have the build I want, but sad to know it won't be for me. Id suggest running some sort of DSP to get the best crossover for your system, I ran the Dayton Audio 408 and loved it. I had a 3 way active setup in my blazer, highs, mid range and subs. Those 8 8s and 2 super tweeters actually did pretty good keeping up with the 8 15s.
I'd fine tune the Blazer since you already have the setup. Unless of course you wanna go bigger. I think if you take a little time to tune everything, it'll make a difference. But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods hic cop... 1*
Yeah that meter wasnt reading the freq. right while doing his sweep. But the last sweep it started to read it, then it seemed like it stopped again. If I was testing, i would have caught that, like you did, and just start testing one test tone @ a time, from about 35Hz up to 55Hz, @ approx. Half volume. Then when you get the peak freq., crank it up, and test 1Hz above, 1Hz below, and the peak freq.
My advice is don't stop until you solve all the issues with the blazer not only do you learn but you will feel accomplished, if sell it before you master it you will be haunted by what ifs. Master it and then sell it to start a new project with confidence. Just my opinion. Gret vid and thanks for sharing.
Pioneer are known for being clean power.
It's actually hit or miss with Pioneer head units. They do have clean signal but alot of them distort at or near max volume. Kenwood Excelon and Sony are clean and distortion free all the way to max volume and that's why I run Kenwood Excelon.
Keep going with the Audiopipe blazer man
From a basshead who has switched vehicles. I wish I would of just rebuilt because all the deadener, wiring, and all the other hidden things are already done..the only plus from my point of view is more space..blazer to Tahoe
Get rid of the RCA split and get a DSP. I did the same thing with my build and it fixed alot of things sonically.
One thing I would say that you're doing wrong is changing the max volume of your system to set your gains. The gains should be set at the same volume level (with no distortion) so they are consistent across the board. I use a MiniDSP DSP in my setup (as you saw from the last time I was at Slam) but Dayton Audio has a nice one and of course Audio Control.
Also I would not use the crossovers on your head unit or on the amps to set your hpf/lpf, let the DSP do all of that for you.
You have a great system build and I'm sure that once you get everything set up correctly that it will sound better and be louder than you could've ever imagined.
Don't sell the Blazer!! Get with Jason and Bill for suggestions as well and don't forget about us in the Audiopipe Facebook group, we all want to see you do well.
Bass on bro!
Don't sell it. You will regret it, ive been there and more than once. Im actually doing the rebuild on the 1 I sold most recently. Its good to know its gonna have the build I want, but sad to know it won't be for me.
Id suggest running some sort of DSP to get the best crossover for your system, I ran the Dayton Audio 408 and loved it. I had a 3 way active setup in my blazer, highs, mid range and subs. Those 8 8s and 2 super tweeters actually did pretty good keeping up with the 8 15s.
Give you heads up brother meter should be 12" up from Bottom of windshield and 6" over from A-piller other than that killer setup brother
Right, I wasn't gonna get too technical with it, just for purposes of what I was doing and for video lol
go get you a DSP and try to go with either bigger subs that's putting out more power from Auto pipes so you can handle more power
Audio makes a good dsp
I'd fine tune the Blazer since you already have the setup. Unless of course you wanna go bigger. I think if you take a little time to tune everything, it'll make a difference. But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods hic cop... 1*
The dd1 doesn't read past 15k..message with Tony d amore.hebwill get you set straight.
On the mids n highs amp it said 31volts on the Dd1, not watts. He was ✔️ ing rca voltage.
Your only testing 38hz
Never mind
Yeah that meter wasnt reading the freq. right while doing his sweep. But the last sweep it started to read it, then it seemed like it stopped again. If I was testing, i would have caught that, like you did, and just start testing one test tone @ a time, from about 35Hz up to 55Hz, @ approx. Half volume. Then when you get the peak freq., crank it up, and test 1Hz above, 1Hz below, and the peak freq.
Not posting big numbers? It's because it's Audiopipe. Constant failures and tweaking? Same answer. Uncontrollable dandruff? Yep, you guessed it. AP.
Sell the blazer and start from scratch . That should get the motivation back.