This is driving me crazy Please Help!!

[tr10av 10+ year member]

Like someone said before you probably need to up your gain.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

Stop troubleshooting, read what i said..it will fix the problem.

if the gains were set correctly originally then right now they are waaaaay too low for the RCA outputs of the head unit.

up the gain some.

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

 

[headlesskoopa 10+ year member]

im thinking the gain on the amp needs to go up. 

voltage coming off the speaker wires is much higher than the RCA's

this for the 3rd time

 

[drk1234 10+ year member]

Like i said before the gain is all the way up. My neighbors who owns his own audio business came over today. Turns out everytime i am plugging a new headunit into my car it is frying the rca's instantly. Makes no sense.

 

[drk1234 10+ year member]

this for the 3rd time

Trust me gains all the way up its not that. It sounds like thats the problem but something just really messed up is happening.

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

Your gains should NOT be set all the way up. They should be in the 40%~60% range. All the way up you're clipping your signal bad.

You're probably used to loud, clipped bass, instead of quality notes.

 

[drk1234 10+ year member]

yeah, i meant to say i've messed with the gain a bunch of times. If i turn the gain to like 50% theres nothing at all.

 

[drk1234 10+ year member]

Problem solved. I just went and got all new equipment works great sounds awesome. I think it was just something to do with my crappy setup trying to compete with my premium sound system, it just wasn't getting enough juice. Thanks for all the input though.

 

[microhaxo 10+ year member]

Your gains should NOT be set all the way up. They should be in the 40%~60% range. All the way up you're clipping your signal bad.
You're probably used to loud, clipped bass, instead of quality notes.

That statement is wrong.

Depending upon how much voltage the amp is receiving off of the rca's the gain could easily need to be 100%, or in some cases not even turned up 1%.

Simply saying 40~60% range is horrible advice and could easily cause subs to be blown.

Always set the gain with a multimeter, PERIOD!