4 Fi Audio IB3 18's walled off 15Hz tune in a VAN BUILD LOG

cant tell, but silver in front, gold in back

 

So I started with the crossover set to:
Tweets HP 10kHz, LP 20k
4.5's 250Hz-14k
6.5's 50Hz-250Hz

I played with the tweets even HP at 14k for a while, had the 6.5's HP from 50,56,63, and 71Hz.

I revamped, brought the tweets down to 4kHz, the 4.5's LP up to 710, and the 6.5's up to 710.

Totally different. Over all, much louder. The 6.5's aren't acting like subwoofers anymore, the tweeters are actually contributing now, and it's a whole new ball game. The subwoofer...er the mid-woofers aren't near as loud as in thumpin and flexin and poundin, but theyre louder bringing up the 250Hz-710 range significantly.

So now I'm kind of getting muddy and confused and lost, Ive never had any experience going active before, only tons of research, free internet self education. I don't know when I'm making things betetr or worse anymore, sometimes it seems like it's a great SQ system for what it is, sometimes it seems terrible. Sometimes it still seems loud as hell, I am always getting looks, gawked at, and chicks breaking out into dance from 2 blocks away..but sometimes it just seems weak as hell for what it is.

I can't tell up from down, in from out anymore!

So right now, I am at:
TW 4k-20k
MR 710-4k
MW 50-710

I am thinking that I will bump the MW up from 50Hz to 63Hz, 71Hz, or even 80Hz once the subs are in. I think SQ guys are hard set on getting the front down to 50Hz for up front bass? I'm not sure. But I think once I have the SUB woofers in, I know I should cross them at 50Hz, but I think they will still drown out any sub 80Hz material from the 6.5's no matter how well they do.

IDK???

 

Ive been vandalized 3 times since I moved here...I live in the ghetto. I'm going to be gone for 3 weeks, so I am taking the whole home theater and putting it in the van, parking the van in the garage, and boarding it up

BTW, hope you're cool with blacks and indians and mexicans and so on... if you swing by tomorrow, in any given hour I can have up to 10 different people come up to me and check out my stuff, ask for help, or whatever and maybe 1 or 2 are white

 

well, it really is ghetto here... it's always busy, groups of drunks and thugs everywhere, but i like my hood and my hood likes me... all the thugs come up and BS and ask for help.

At least 2 of the 3 vandalizms were the same person not from here, a developing situation I am getting made aware of.

 

txt me 4 u do, im in an outta here all day long

 

cool, im free all day till about 7 I think. 12th street exit take 12th up to summit, hang a right. I think there's a pizza place a block or 2 down on the left on 11th. Know where Munchie's is? 1 Block after Munchies.

 

I wiosh I wouldda played you some cypress hill! My ears are killin me. Got any picsw of that 66' pickup?

 

He's a cool dude! I wish I wouldda played a couple songs for him that I found later, oh so loud

 

Tell ya what man, when it's done in a month, if you can't make it out this way I'll make my way out ther...scare the **** outta the little town

 

I went up to 80 for a while and it was much better. Then I played around and 63 is clearly too low, they lose punch/kick and seem like they would be overtaken by the subs too much. Up to 80 and I lose to much overall down low. 71 is the sweet spot!

 

So I've been working on a pre-emtive plan for noise tickets: was gonna go to court when I get my 1st ticket, explain that I'm not here to say I wasn't too looud or don't deserve a ticket, but that I want our local law changed. Right now it is if they hear you over 50 feet away. So if I live at the end of a park, with a football field, there's kids at the other end..over 300 feet away, will they get a ticket if I can hear them? Speeding is measured in MPH. Sound should be in SPL. What if I play 10Hz test tones full bore? I will be fully capable of single digits in the van... you can't hear it from 5 feet away, let alone 50 feet.

I understand that no one wants to hear systems bumbing by their house all hours of the day. I am generally not the guy that drives by houses in neighborhoods at 3AM. But I will not say I have never ever done it or never ever will again.

How about on main roads during the day? Trucks are loud. Motorcycles are loud. Horns are loud. But there has to be some limits, some freedoms.

Anyway, I shook one off already today, yes just for my front stage..waiting on wire to install HO alt and subs. He was going the other way on our bussiest street, he turned around and got behind me. I quick did a lane change, he did the same, then I turned off fast, he blew past me and took the next turn, so I ditched him.

Then, later, my neighbor wanted me to play her a song..a weak ass song, and, now that my crossover's are set to 71Hz... they are nothing like they were before for thumping... but a cop came. He was cool, we bull****ted with him for a while, showed him the system, and I explained my feelings on the 50ft rule. Explained I am not fighting the fact that if I am too loud, something should be done, but I think it needs changed from feet to DeciBels. I said what can you do then if I do 10Hz? He said then theyd have to charge me for disorderly conduct, no longer a ticket but an arrest. He sdaid don't wait for a ticket and try my luck explaining to judge, thats hit and miss, go to the city council.

anyway

got the dash back on now that the deck is secured. Needs prettied up.






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