I am far from an expert but I would say yes. That way you can control the bass from your sub separately from the the rest of your speakers. I think it'd be best to turn bass down in your EQ settings and adjust it with the sub knob. That way you can take bass out of your other speakers which should improve clarity.
Hmm. I would want to place it in an easy to replace spot like where your aux switches normally go or where the automatic windows switches go since I have neither in mine. You'd have to build a little box or something but I'd hate to drill into the dash for a knob.
I had my bass knob mounted underneath the light switch to the left of the steering wheel. It's not needed per say, but I like having them.
You have your bass adjustments with your head unit. This just provides a further adjustability of your sub. You can turn it all the way up, or off. I personally wouldn't go with out one, but that's me.
I've changed out the 2.5's in daah and soundbar to 3.5's kicker plug and play speakers and just ordered the 8" jl audio sub for rear tailgate + bass knob. I plan to turn my bass down to -6 or -7 on head unit and use sub for low's. My front and soundbar speaker still distort when volume is turned above 20 ish(very noticable in soundbar). Would it make a big difference if I amplified those? If so, what is an economical option that I can conceal? Thanks!Sorry for a very late reply. Work has been ridiculous. I pulled the signal for the powered bass tube from the rear speaker locations. The powered Fusion sub I have does have a remote for the volume.
Since then, I have installed an old Alpine deck in the glove box and used the front dash speakers as inputs. This old Alpine deck has time delay, crossovers, parametric EQ, sub output and 4x25 watt amp built in. I tinker with the settings all the time to get the sound the way I want it. The Alpine is only powering the front dash top and knee speakers. I have not changed the 4" speakers at all.
I have changed the rears to the same JL Audio speakers as the front. The rears are still being powered off of the stock amp.
The JL speakers are more efficient than the stock speakers, so now the midbass doesn't quite match up with the JL's. Adjusting the level of the front does help but with a clearer sounding system, you notice some songs sound better than others.
On top of the continuing madness of finding a great balance of sound, my right rear decided to stop working on me.
As an former audio guy, I will probably continue to change settings, maybe even speakers until the day I no longer drive this. :cwl:
I thought you had to install the JL Audio FiX™ 86. to get an amplifier to work.?
Honestly I’m not the best when it comes to writing this stuff up. That’s why I took it somewhere. Based on the components and what I paid, they didn’t use that JL audio fix.
Do you have picture of the 4" Kicker speakers installed? Did the stock 4" speakers still have the 3 screw patern like the 3.5" do?
