What order are the sub,amp,and deck hooked up in? Install noob, silverado truck.

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If your speakers will handle 150 watts rms each that 150x2 = 300 watts. Your amp puts out 500 rms . Just keep the gain on the amp turned down and you should be fine . Also if the factory speaker is the same you could run it in the back . Also you said your gound wire is 3 ft long your grounf wire shouldnt be more than 18" max try finging mater somewhere arounf the seat and scrape all paint away have bare metal exposed and ground it to the chassis with a ring termnal and a bolt and nut for a good solid connection and you should be fine.
 
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thanks!! I struggled with all the problems you mentioned today. BestBuy sold me everything. I drove a couple of hours to the nearest bestbuy and told them my issue. They had sold me the wrong harness. Ugh. The popping issue went away but still popped at high volumes and sounded flat. Turns out I had the speaker converter (little black cable with what feels like a fuse inside) hooked up to my tweeters. But the audio went from the tweeters to the speakers also, so I had to wire the speakers straight to the receiver.

And it fixed it!! So now everything works. I used a drimmel to sand the paint and mounted the grounding cable. All I have to do now is fine tune my audio.

The only thing Im curious about is why my bass isn't 'thumping'. My subs work, as they shake the seats a little. But its not a lot, a lot. Like I'm not wowed by them. I've been in other cars where one 12" seems like it shook my seats more than my two 10"'s do. So tomorrow I'm going to try and figure out how to get a little more bass. I just want to be able to know it can do it, of course I wont leave it like that all the time. Just when I'm showing other people 😛

Any suggestions on the bass? I only have 3 knobs on my amp. Gain, EQ, and LP.

again, thanks guys. everything youve helped me on has been spot on. It's amazing you knew what my problems were without actually looking at the car.
 
#23
You will have to play with the bass. Set the LP so it sounds right that is usually when you can't hear any midrange sounds from the sub, try 80Hz. Also box placement matters if you can move it, typically many people like it facing the rear. The EQ usually boosts about 40Hz, so if the subs are weak on the bottom that will wake them up but boost can clip the amp if you ask for too much....try to get a well rounded bass with less boost if you can. Gain is a matter of max output before they break up then turn it down to blend with the rest of the system.
 
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thanks. is it easy to tell when bass 'breaks up'? I know that speakers cut out and you can clearly hear them break up, but is bass still pretty easy to tell when the amp's gain is too high?

so in total:
Set sub amp's gain as high as it can go without subs 'breaking up'
Set LP to about 80Hz, or until you cant hear mids (need to figure out what mids sound like)
And Set EQ to about 40Hz or however much I want the bass to 'thump'

right?
 
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