Randal Johnson

First and foremost, you need to know what you’re working with. Get your hands on a vehicle, take pics, and start planning !!! What you will need to adapt the source unit to aftermarket amplification and what will need to be done to the vehicle for driver upgrades. Get to it brother !!! I’m tuned in wishing I had time to work on mine !!!

Pics would be nice.

Aww shit. I did not know about all this.

One word ... EVIL

Welcome to SSA best thing to do here would be to contact Kenwood. They’ve helped me ALOT with my 9980.

Guess if you’re running fully active you kinda have to time align separately. No way around it. Wish I could hear it !!! what’s strange to me is we should have very similar doors and panels. Not real sure what year model you have but thinking 07-13 should be similar. I may do some more measuring next chance I get. Appreciate your input Sean !!!

There is a removable dash plate at the defrost vents. Gave thought about flush mounting a 4” driver and tweet, but there is absolutely no room under that panel. I love the fact of a near flat dash so I’m not wanting a dash pod for drivers. The Bose grilles will be removed for permanent mounting, but for now, helps keeping me from drilling holes all over my a-Pilar’s. Trying my best to keep things simple. You would know I’d catch hell with this. It’s all good. Gonna take time.

Yes, I got this. Me and my late posting. LOL, Sorry for the Mislead brother. Those pods are adjustable so tuning can start. Haven't had time. but sounds way better than stock !!! The driver tweeter looks great since I'm tuning for driver's seat, but the passenger tweet desperately needs turning towards the driver about 45 degrees. Since you have a similar ride, and If you don't mind me asking, what are you thinking about the front stages on these vehicles?? I want very stealthy, but don't see very much hiding for the tweeters and sound correctly. I am ALL open to suggestions !!!

Alright Bitches !!! Front Stage UPGRADES !!! Trying my best guys. Please remember, nothing is set in stone and I'm constantly testing and tuning. This will be a 2 way passive front stage 6.5" driver and tweet setup. One of the cool things I really like about this Avalanche is the tweeter placement. Not the angles of the tweet, but the actual location in reference to the mid bass driver location. According to the good ole measuring tape, it all measures out so that I can time align mid and tweet together. Thank God !!! This location is almost the same as the 2002 Ford F150 Supercrew I was working on. So for testing purposes, I took the stock tweeters out and apart and installed the pods out of the Ford and directly on to the BOSE grilles. Sorry for the night pics. I know guys, that's not on axis or off axis. Those tweets are on adjustable pedestals and THIS is where the Stage and image sounds best to me. No "tricking or notch EQ'ing" here. Left and Right separation seems to be Dead on Balls Accurate as is. I may change the angles a little more on axis, might help, we will see. But with this truck, they will stay in this area and not go onto the dash. After a couple of SQ comps, I think the A-pillars will be ready for Fiberglass. As for the doors. Nice baffle with a 6.5" driver for midbass. Deadning and MLV ??? As soon as I can afford it guys. Unfortunately, working on a very tight (closer to none at the moment) budget. What can I say, Shit Happens.

Thank you Sir !!!

Personally, I would go with a single 12. Stay wit SSA of course. Just Saying

Wow. That’s awesome !!!

I can honestly say I’ve never owned a cell phone. My job has always provided me one. Some good, some sucked. Got an iPhone 6s at the moment.

Like maybe the Extremis midbass ???

For me, the head unit is the only place I like to adjust my settings. I like amplifiers that have only one job, amplify signal.

Congratz My Brother !!!

Dang. Glad you found it !!! Was it a factory integrated relay or aftermarket installed audio system relay ??

Get your hands on an Evil and call it a day bro.

Thank you Sir. Yea, Linear Power is a bit pricey, but worth every penny when it comes to power and dynamics. As for the dash pad, other than looking great and protecting the dash from the sun, it definitely helps with the stage and image. wish I had more time to work on this truck.

Are you sure about this? What is it?

Nice looking driver.

Welcome to SSA.

There is no easy peasy trick to tuning a system. You have to work at it. Plain and Simple My Avalanche has two stereo amplifiers running somewhere around 150 watts per channel. My gains are WAY low and making more than adequate power. If you set your gains to maximum output without distortion and still doesn't give you the output desired, save up for an upgrade. It's been said millions of times on every forum that gains are NOT a volume control knob. It's a gain matching device to your source unit. nothing more.

Test tones can only get you within a ball park of tuning. Tune with your ears. Listen to your system, learn your system, test it's limits, know your system.

Update: Got my 2 way passive set up in and the stage and image process has started !!! It's all stealthy so not much WOW factor, but I'm working on it. I will post pics asap. for now, I'm keeping things simple already had the equipment and got more if needed !!!