Factory crossovers?

[PanchoBarrancas]

I’m a noob here so I appreciate your patience if you see this:
If I wire in the sub did you tap into the rear speaker wires? This seems easiest but then if you toggled down the bass I am guessing it is not getting the signal it needs, so I assume maybe you went up to the head unit or something??

I experience the same issue, I put nicer infinity speakers in the front doors with dynamat, but still get rattling with any decent bass. I want to get a powered sub for the back and then reduce the bass for the door speakers to let it handle all bass.

Thank you!

Greetings!

I decided to tap into the front speaker wires for two reasons:
1.- Since the rear speakers are smaller, they are likely receiving a signal with most of the bass cut out as they can't handle it. I don't know if using forscan to set the stereo's equalization to flat would help there.

2.- Since the rear speakers are at head level, they feel much louder than the front speakers at the same volume on the radio. I used the fader controls in the stock radio to reduce the rear speaker volume by about 30 to 50% so that my rear passengers experience the same volume I do in the driver's seat. Hooking the subwoofer to the rear speakers would give me a weaker signal for my sub, which is bad, and complicate tuning it properly.

I did turn down the bass on my head unit to 0, which at the front speakers does give enough bass for my active subwoofer to pick it up, and that thing is set at the lowest gain and yet I get really strong bass from it.

That said, I'm considering putting bass blockers on my speakers in order to clean up the sound even more while keeping the radio's bass at the stick level.

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[Toddman45]

Greetings!

I decided to tap into the front speaker wires for two reasons:
1.- Since the rear speakers are smaller, they are likely receiving a signal with most of the bass cut out as they can't handle it. I don't know if using forscan to set the stereo's equalization to flat would help there.

2.- Since the rear speakers are at head level, they feel much louder than the front speakers at the same volume on the radio. I used the fader controls in the stock radio to reduce the rear speaker volume by about 30 to 50% so that my rear passengers experience the same volume I do in the driver's seat. Hooking the subwoofer to the rear speakers would give me a weaker signal for my sub, which is bad, and complicate tuning it properly.

I did turn down the bass on my head unit to 0, which at the front speakers does give enough bass for my active subwoofer to pick it up, and that thing is set at the lowest gain and yet I get really strong bass from it.

That said, I'm considering putting bass blockers on my speakers in order to clean up the sound even more while keeping the radio's bass at the stick level.

Change the EQ settings in Forscan to Flat in the ACM that remove the factory bass roll off and flattens the eq. As well as changing the speaker setting to Tweeter & Woofer in Forscan in ACM.

 

[MortyHooper]

Greetings!

I decided to tap into the front speaker wires for two reasons:
1.- Since the rear speakers are smaller, they are likely receiving a signal with most of the bass cut out as they can't handle it. I don't know if using forscan to set the stereo's equalization to flat would help there.

2.- Since the rear speakers are at head level, they feel much louder than the front speakers at the same volume on the radio. I used the fader controls in the stock radio to reduce the rear speaker volume by about 30 to 50% so that my rear passengers experience the same volume I do in the driver's seat. Hooking the subwoofer to the rear speakers would give me a weaker signal for my sub, which is bad, and complicate tuning it properly.

I did turn down the bass on my head unit to 0, which at the front speakers does give enough bass for my active subwoofer to pick it up, and that thing is set at the lowest gain and yet I get really strong bass from it.

That said, I'm considering putting bass blockers on my speakers in order to clean up the sound even more while keeping the radio's bass at the stick level.

Thank you, this is perfect! Will combine with possibly messing with Forescan as per the other response too.

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