PROBLEM....where the bass gone?!

[SRlew]

right im posting on behalf of my brother.

he took the stereo and speakers out of his GSi to put in his xr2, so we connected it all up, turned it on and there was just NO bass coming from the speaker :?

when the set up was in his GSi they worked and sounded a treat!
ints a jvc headunit and jbl 300w 6x9's

we turned the bass up on the stereo and the treble down but still not mate a differance.

we just dont understand, it used to be well bassy without messing around with the bass on the stereo so...

what ya recon the guys?

cheers, lew

[Adam]

The speakers won't perform any different in a different car, so i would say that there is a wiring problem to the speakers somewhere.
Maybe the connection of the wire to the speaker isn't fully secure.

[epo]

The speakers won't perform any different in a different car, so i would say that there is a wiring problem to the speakers somewhere.
Maybe the connection of the wire to the speaker isn't fully secure.

just what i was going to say

re-trace all cables imo

i love fault finding :wink:

[SRlew]

The speakers won't perform any different in a different car, so i would say that there is a wiring problem to the speakers somewhere.
Maybe the connection of the wire to the speaker isn't fully secure.

just what i was going to say

re-trace all cables imo

i love fault finding :wink:

oh if we knew there was a fault we would of gotten hold of you! lol
as we went to scunthorpe on sunday to pick his new car up. theres loads of modded cars round there ain there!

right so we'll go out and check all the wires are connected properly etc then.

cheers, lew

[epo]

aye you should have said

where abouts in scunny were you

[SRlew]

im not to sure actually, but where we were, there was a big tesco next to a round about and then a pub across the road :lol: , carnt remember the name of it thou, i'll ask me bro when he gets in.

doubt you know where i meen, with no names etc

[epo]

i do mate you wernt far from hendrix
couple of miles away from me but not too far

[-tucny-]

check to make sure the speakers are in phase. ( the - are going to the - and the + are going to the +) if these havnt been connected right from the head unit and some of the speakers are out of phase the it will cancel the bass.

direct all the sound to come from one speaker (say the rear left) and see if the bass is there then fade it to the right and see if it gets quieter. if so then its a phase problem.

[SRlew]

ah i see. we'll check that on the week end then, also i think his car has had a sub at some point as the guy my bro baught it off said that the boot has been sound proffed fo a sub, but i sont no if it has had one in there or not.

if it has had one in there before could that be why it has no bass aswell?

alright cool. i couldnt believe how many modded cars there were just in tesco car park. then there were more over the road in the pub car park!

cheers, lew

[SRlew]

right we tryed that and had no luck so were in the middle of re-wireing most of it.

but you know were that black plug thing plugs into the back of the stereo, the it has wires, then goes to another black box thing where it connects to another box, well there is an orange wire that says 'power antenna' on and its been cut.

so obviosly the radio doesnt work. but we didnt cut it so we dont know what to connect it too. any one know??

cheers so much, lew

[epo]

right we tryed that and had no luck so were in the middle of re-wireing most of it.

but you know were that black plug thing plugs into the back of the stereo, the it has wires, then goes to another black box thing where it connects to another box, well there is an orange wire that says 'power antenna' on and its been cut.

so obviosly the radio doesnt work. but we didnt cut it so we dont know what to connect it too. any one know??

cheers so much, lew

power antenner is for electric areial so when you have the radio on the areal goes up

[SRlew]

epo you know your s**t!!

nice. well we plugged the aerial in and it just wont pick any thing up, what could be wrong?

also cheers! we got the bass sorted. we spent all day re-wireing it and sorting it all out and it finaly worked!

cheers, lew

[epo]

epo you know your s**t!!



thats not nice :lol:

[SRlew]

:lol: sorry :lol:

what could be up with the radio then. it just makes that noise like when its tunning. but just wont pick any thing up, it'll just keep surching all day i recon, lol

cheers

[epo]

id say the areil knackered or its not plugged in right possibly a break in the cable

the one on my sri was all correded up and wouldnt pick up a signal

[SRlew]

ah right. i think we'll leave that then. at least the stereos got bass again.

thanks alot epo! :D

cheers, lew

[F83GTE]

THE POSITIVE (+) AND THE NEGATIVE (-) SPEAKER WIRES ARE PROBABLY ON WRONG WAY ROUND, JUST SWAP THEM ROUND ON EACH SPEAKER

[epo]

THE POSITIVE (+) AND THE NEGATIVE (-) SPEAKER WIRES ARE PROBABLY ON WRONG WAY ROUND, JUST SWAP THEM ROUND ON EACH SPEAKER

that wouldnt cause the bass to stop