I don't know if its my settings on my headunit or if it's my songs format (data and mp3) but i'm starting to notice most of my songs sound like crap. I set my gains with my volt meter and the low pass is set around 80hz and no bass boost. My enclosure is 2.2 cubes tuned to 32hz and i'm thinking maybe its too big? One song I noticed it bottomed out and I set my gains to volume 52 with a -4db 40 or 50hz test tone I believe, I was only playing the song around 34-38.

I can turn down my eq on my headunit but then my frontstage midbass is not even being used. Do I need an external equalizer? and smaller box since it bottomed out? I mean the song Young Jezzy "You know what it is" sounds crazy loud and sq is reall nice, I can hear every different bass line in that song. My doors even push in and out. But I would like all my songs to sound good instead of just a couple.

What's my problem here?

frontstage: PG rsd6.5cs

frontstage amp: PG ryval v752

and running the 12" icon of the jbl gto1201.1

Are you sure it bottomed out? Seems really odd to me and I actually doubt it happened. What exactly are you hearing that you don't like?

umm it kinda sounded like a pop, its kinda hard to describe. I know it's not the cd skipping because it happened when I was turning it up from 30 to around 35. What else could that sound be except it bottoming out?

umm it kinda sounded like a pop, its kinda hard to describe. I know it's not the cd skipping because it happened when I was turning it up from 30 to around 35. What else could that sound be except it bottoming out?

Very unlikely that the sub would bottom out. Are all the screws holding it in still in tact? Is there anyway that it could of loosend in the box? I had a simular problem with my set up. Turned out it was my back hatch door slaping something feirce. I sound dampened it and it did help somewhat, but just goes to show it could be something other then the speaker its self.