Everything was pretty easy. Read up on how to do it here on the forum... went to best buy and grabbed a line over converter to I could just vampire tap into the stock sub wiring and use that to connect my RCA's to the amp. I hooked my remote wire to the rear left 6" speaker as it seems to have a solid 12v signal and turns off/on with the stereo.

Okay well here is the thing now, everything sounds great and ****, its loud. I have the sub at -6 or just as "sub off" and it hits hard. But if I turn the volume past about 11-12 the sub cuts out and the music just keeps playing. Turn it to 12... sub off... back down to 11... sub is on again. Regardless of when I am turning the volume up/down the amp light shows that it is still powered up but the sub is doing jack ****.

Any ideas? I'm thinking it might be the line over converter? Need to dial it down or something? I'm not a huge audio guy so yea...



Pics if you can't see the wiring and it looks stock/clean then I think I did my job

 

Is that the factory sub, directly above your amplifier in the first pic?

 

Yes it is.

And a little fyi koby, its never a good idea to mount your amp on your sub box. Makes it easier for thieves to take both. Always a smarter choice to mount them seperate. Just my .02

 

^Yeah that.

Professionals generally mount the amp on the back of the seat.

 

didn't want to build a nice fiberglass enclosure?

 

how did you set your gain on the amp? it's not a volume ****. you might be clipping the signal and the amp is going into protect while you are over the signal level.

also, does your LOC have settings on it as well? I know some do.

What you should do is turn your gain down on the amp the entire way. turn the volume up on the HU to roughly 75-80%. play a song that you know the bass by heart and put it on repeat. SLOWLY turn the gain up until it starts to sound distorted then turn it back a notch. that's the easy way to set the gain on an amp without an o-scope.

 

Turned gain/db/ all the way down... tried that to no avail.

Turned the LOC all the way down, and that didn't help.

Basically weather the sub is loud as **** with the volume at 5 and then super loud when it is at 10 then sub will just cut off when I go past 10... **** is really weird. Doesn't seem to make any difference if i set the sub to -6 or +6 on the deck (although it does raise/lower the bass). But adjusting it all the way down or up on the deck doesn't affect the sub cutting out when the volume is past 10 or so.

So yea I'm kinda out of ideas what to do? IDK if another LOC would possibly solve the problem?

 

how manny ohms is your sub, and what model amp, and how did you connect it, to the amp...

btw, pictures dont show...

 

If you hooked it up correctly, when you have the deck set as "sub off" the sub should be off. It shouldn't still be "hittin hard".

 

Fixed the problem. Finally got some time to sit down and get to it. Having the remote wire hooked up to the rear speaker was causing the issue. Hooked it up to fuse #35 (radio) instead and things are perfect now. I forgot just how loud just one 12" type R can be