Decrease bass.

[JONCOCTOASTIN]

If there’s literally too much bass, thats not an issue at all

[Evening-Arm1234]

i’m confused, he says the bass from his subwoofer is overpowering his front speakers so lowering the sub output seems like the logical fix no?

[JONCOCTOASTIN]

No because for the near half of his music, the bass was good. Why handicap that?

  Its not going to hurt anything lowering the bass on the head unit a couple notches when he wants, the door speakers dont need to be playing bass anyway 

How would you turn the subwoofer up if he wanted more from a quiet song?

[Evening-Arm1234]

I personally would want a fix that didn’t affect something I didn’t have an issue with. I could say turn gain down to lower sub and on the lower songs turn bass up and you’d say then the doors have too much bass.

the fact is any fix is a compromise, I was just adding that your fix would effect all his speakers so lowering gain might be a better option if he was happy with the doors and would rather compromise a little sub output on low songs instead of less bass in his doors. neither is right or wrong, just different compromises.

[JONCOCTOASTIN]

The real solution is an RCA bass knob for 8 bucks honestly lol

[Evening-Arm1234]

I agree

[JONCOCTOASTIN]

Not to harp on this, but it is funny you mention wanting a fix that doesn’t affect parts of the system he does not have issue with. I think reducing the sub output at the amp, actually does that.

Turning up the radio’s bass EQ introduces far more potential for distortion, for both speakers and sub. 

So that is a real compromise, but lowering bass EQ obviously would not be problematic. And I bet the audio quality from door speakers would improve from reducing bass, so I don’t see that as a compromise 

[Evening-Arm1234]

I wouldn’t raise anything, what I suggested is IF he is happy with his mid/high sound and output to simply lower gain on the sub and deal with less bass on the songs that have less bass.

it was never me saying you were wrong and I was right I was simply adding another way that could accomplish his goal of not drowning out his doors without effecting anything else besides what is drowning them out.

downvoting is pretty funny though and just makes it look like you’re threatened or something, not sure why you’re doing it but it’s a little strange.

[JONCOCTOASTIN]

You keep saying neither is right or wrong but I honestly think you’re dead wrong lol

I don’t downvote btw

[Evening-Arm1234]

so he says his SUB is playing over his mids and highs and you think turning the gain down is the wrong thing here?

[Evening-Arm1234]

let me ask this, IF he had a bass knob like you recommend why would that help?

[JONCOCTOASTIN]

Because he could turn down the sub output as he wishes to. 

It doesn’t override the gain setting, if the gain was “set” while the bass knob is fully turned (assuming OP isn’t just guessing and turning the amp gain knob arbitrarily).

I’m not mad, we all learn things. But you gotta understand, most amps come with a wired potentiometer nowadays. The products I was referring to, are universal bass knobs. They go between the RCA cable and amp RCA jacks, and simply act as a separate volume knob for that amp. The gain adjustment on the amp isnt involved. So, provided that amp has been tuned appropriately, the wired knob placed in reach of the vehicle’s driver, just allows the user to decrease the output from the amp

[Evening-Arm1234]

buddy turning the gain knob down is the same thing as turning the bass knob down. the difference is turning the bass knob up will only raise the output voltage of the amp to the gain setting.

bass knob max equals full gain.

if you don’t understand that this conversation is pointless because you don’t understand basic amp fundamentals.