Weird problem with my stereo

gruntman31

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I had an Alpine 4 channel amp and an Infinity basslink installed in my little beater car a few days ago. I can hear the guitars, drums, bass, cymbols, etc... clearly. However, I can BARELY hear the vocals. I have turned the bass all the way off, turn the highs and mids all the way up, but I can find a way to be able to hear the vocals.

The Alpine is setup to run 4 channels, with the basslink daisy chained into it. I am using Pioneer 6 1/5" speakers up front and Rockford Fosgate 4" in the back. The CD player is a Pioneer DEH-2600.

Anybody have an idea how to get some vocals??

BTW, before the amps, I could hear the vocals clearly.

 

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Josh97GT

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Buy some tweeters.

 

gruntman31

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The speakers have tweeters in them, why would I need more?

I don't have this problem in the stang. I've got 4 5x7 JBL GTO speakers driven by a PPI amp and 2 JBL 10's running off a bridged Neon Splash amp(it's crap, I know). The bass isn't very good, but I can clearly hear the vocals.

 

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Josh97GT

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Well tweaters will ussually help the vocals, so that's why I was saying that, maybe if you get some separate tweeters. If not just try and tune your system, maybe lower the bass and higher the treb, just mess around until it sounds best.

 

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Man you're lucky lol. When I had the stereo in my other car. I had no depth to the music, just "tinny" ear piercing treble. When whoever is singing said any word with S it would like hurt your ears and ****. What was wrong with that? I have a pioneer deck too. I dont think another set of tweeters is your answer. Some stock speakers dont have any tweets and sound fine. Those little ****ter rampage speakers or whatever that cost a couple bucks just have a 'wizzer' cone tweeter, and they sound ok.

 

KWIK9550

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Perhaps you have the crossover setting on low-pass therefore not allowing any high frequencies to reach the drivers.

 

gruntman31

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It was the head unit.

 

KWIK9550

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gruntman31 said:

It was the head unit.

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What was wrong with it and how did you determine that?

 

gruntman31

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One of the preamp outputs was loose. I took it back to Circuit City, got a new one and bam! no more problem.