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how is signal is transferred from h.u. to eq to crossover to amp???

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I’m trying to see if someone can answer this question for me in simple terms. Basically I want to know what is going to happen to my signal as it’s going to be transferred and how multiple equalizers, crossovers, and gains will affect it. So basically, my head unit has a built in equalizer and crossover (they’re not that great though.) From my head unit the signal will go to an external equalizer I have. From the equalizer the signal is going to go into a stetsom 3way 6 channel crossover. The crossover is a crossover (obviously). From the stetsom crossover the signal will go into my full range amps. I have 2 amps, one for mids and one for highs.
Now to make things even more confusing the crossover has individual gain knobs and so do the amps. Both of those amps have crossovers on them too. So how will the crossovers affect the crossovers when the signal transfers from one device to the other? And how about the equalizers? My guess would be to keep the crossover and equalizer settings flat on the head unit. Use the external eq for eq. Now the confusing part is I don’t know how the crossovers act with eachother. Does one fine tune the other? Should you try to match them? I hope this makes sense. If someone could help that would be great lol and yes I tried google

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Leave the headunit EQ flat. Run the amps wide open, and use the stetsom amp to set your crossover frequencies.

 

 

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Awesome thank you. I'm assuming to leave the crossover settings flat on the head unit a well. Now who do the 2 gains affect each other. The one on the crossover and amp?

 

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2 steps back. All the settings you have are pointless without knowing what they are connected to and your goals

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