Troth

I just redid the rear of my jeep, painted trim, installed fire extinguisher, painted my roof on inside, replaced the carpet on my rear seat with heavy vinyl rubber mat, and mounted my amp to the seat so the spare tire sheilds and conceals it. my sub is out in the pic obviously. so I just replaced my battery cables and battery. ever since, my sub just doesnt sound the same as it used to. I did make adjustments on tuning freequency but usually im pretty good and I cant get it. It used to almost shake my rear view off but now it will hit good bass in some parts of some songs but not the same. I do transfer my sub in and out alot and saw the wire ends for the sub look a little beat up but not bad. any Ideas? Dual 600 watt & 2 12" dual kickers.

Dr.Watson

Are any of your grounds/positive wires around the battery corroded? other than that check to see if everytthing is still tightly connected. that's about all that has made mine drop in output.

Ritter4.0

Maybe the heavy vinyl is reflecting/messing up the soundwaves? But yeah, check your connections and stuff. I would suggest facing your subs at the roof, it that doesn't work, then at the back hatch. If neither of those work, then face them at the rear seat. Where they face affects the soundwaves I think. If I face mine different ways, they "seem" to hit harder or softer.

Dr.Watson

yeah definitely the reflection of soundwaves makes a big differrence. if you have them ported at least face that to the back.

Troth

well ive had my sub behind the rear seat facing towards the front before because of that small cavity thats is created there. i like that so my subs wont get hit. but the inside of the rear seat it pretty heavy guage metal and it was fine before, do you think the vinyl would make that much of a difference? I JUST replaced the battery cables and grounds are good

Ritter4.0

Yes, I think it would make a difference. The softer padding that was there did something that the vinyl does not or vise versa.

When I removed all my carpet and herc'ed my jeep, my subs sounded different.

Ritter4.0

If you are concerned about your subs getting damaged, look into a metal grille, or make one out of heavy guage expanded metal.

Troth

ya, Im all rhino lined on the interior aswell and no head liner. well I will most deffinetly have to try changing the orientation of the sub, I just never liked pointing the sub at the hatch since its fiberglass and rattles and all.

Ritter4.0

What kind of music do you listen to? (just out of curiosity)

Dr.Watson

agreed my back hatch shakes so much... but then again i love car audio and am trying to be loud.

Troth

AC/DC, alice in chains, Atmosphere, bad religion, zeppelin, metallica, wu tang, dr dre, sublime. and a ton more but I love all classic rock and new stuff like. if its bad a$$ and good music overall, then im there.

let me clarify one thing, im not one of those dudes trying to blast bass for blocks and be as lod as possible, I like my music loud but not over powered on bass

Dr.Watson

i know not many people are

but to help you get that "thump" back you should let it reflect off something.

Troth

ok well you guys got me all riled to go and move my sub, but I dont live in the country any more and now i live at apartments and hate to advertise that I have a sub by blasting it but im gunna go try I think

Dr.Watson

hit up the thread if your desired level of bass is restored, haha!

Troth

ok ok im going, give me 10 to 15 min