If you compete in car audio competitions, what tips would you pass on , the ones you found most beneficial!
Really. Improve. The "sound" of a system ?
If you compete in car audio competitions, what tips would you pass on , the ones you found most beneficial!
Really. Improve. The "sound" of a system ?
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Anything on achieving system "tonality ", or stage width/depth/heigth ?
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. . . and there you have it from the people who compete in the IASCA/et cetera / / / '/
Try to adjust your system the way that they do [basically, put speakers in factpry locations /dash or door/rear deck/etc..,]
Power it up and win a ribbon or trophy !
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I think it's really hard to answer this general of a question. A lot of improving a system is identifying what is wrong with it, so that would likely be different for every car.
I will throw out some tips that I find to be helpful recently:
- Kill peaks, don't fill narrow troughs.
- Time align by tape measure to get close, then by ear. Phase is everything.
- Sound deaden everything. Then deaden everything you missed the first time.
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Get the system sounding as good as possible...good center (focused), good width, good depth. Once you’ve done this, go compete. The feedback from different judges has been a great help. My hearing isn’t great (retired Marine infantry). The feedback helped me correct issues that I wasn’t aware of. That being said, I can hear and feel the improvements. My current install and tune are dialed in about as good as possible given the natural limitations of speaker placement and interior space. Every single day my system amazes me with its ability to accurately reproduce music. I get goose bumps daily. Feedback from multiple trained judges has helped me more than anything. If you can’t compete, go to meet and greets...find a good shop. Do whatever you can to get more ears in your vehicle. Listen to other well tuned vehicles to identify shortcomings in your own. Tune..tune...tune, enjoy!
Having been without a system for several years, I can't wait to get mine installed. I'm having Steve Cook at Audio-X doing mine...well, I was set up for next week but had to back it up due to scheduling conflicts. I told him I would like to try my hand at competing, so hopefully he'll give it that something extra.
Next season I'm coming for ya
LOL...bring it! Your boy Tony Rodriguez has been a thorn in my side and he’s another Audio X guy (I love Tony actually...great guy!).
Truth be told, as much as it would pain me to spend money in alabama, I may take a trip east myself for some Audio X treatment. Steve builds great sounding systems.