Starting New Stereo Build

[spinr33]

Looks like the fun stuff running wires

[Panda Eyes]

yeah its not too bad. is alot easier with everything out of the car!

[bossmang]

this ^^^^

when I did mine I took nothing out. made life fkn hell. lol

[knoles]

Does your car have a sun roof? I'm wanting to remove mine to sound deaden but it feels like its just the cloth and I'm worried that when I remove it I'll f*ck it. Any tips on this?

[Panda Eyes]

yeah you will prol ruin it. there are long clips attached to the headlining either end of the sunroof, but the material is just stuck to the front and rear. mine tore when I carefully prized it away in those spots.

I sound deadened all the roof I could get to, but did not remove the sunroof itself, so there is some panel above the sunroof mechanism that I could not get to...

[MattNaylor]

Awesome thread! Sorry for the unproductive post but I can't wait to see more of this! Especially keen to see how the black roof looks.

[Panda Eyes]

cheers mate. I have to update soon. the second layer of sound proofing is done, all wires run, carpet is back in and front seats too!

piccies and more write ups soon...

[spook]

Looks good mate.

Did you feed the high level signal from the front or rear speakers to the Alpine? I ran mine from the rear as it was a shorter run to were it's mounted.

[Panda Eyes]

front and rear speaker wires from the icc will be fed to the alpine. using the rear only may limit the frequency range sent to the processor. so will use all 6 channel inputs.

[jrjoz]

Hey ya, Install looks great.

I just installed one of the Apline 660's as well and I think I might swap it out as I want a bit more control.

The level sensing remote out is great though as you can change when the music stops on the FG ICC and I couldn't find a 12vt out that changed as you changed the ICC settings.

Set up on the unit is pretty easy but I haven't been able to get what I would consider and accurate "flat" tune out of it. The delay times have been fine though.

I compared it against a - http://www.phonic.com/en/paa3.html

And also the computer software/mic we use to flatten PA systems.

The parametric eq onboard is really annoying as the bass/mid/treble bands it uses don't meet.

For example, I have a dip at 400hz that I want to bump up just a tad. The bass eq band stops to early to get to it and the mid doesn't go low enough either.

When leaving it to do it's own referencing the tune the alpine gives is really bright, I haven't tested the "reference" mic shipped with the kit yet as my bet would be that this is where the problem is.

I think I might be expecting too much from a mic shipped with a $300 car processor as most of the reference mic's we do venues with are worth a grand or so.

Anyways here are the toys that I have installed and pretty happy with the current results.

More install pix at - http://photobucket.com/fgtreatment