Hey guys, so I am making a LOUD daily pounder with a good possibility for competition. I keep reading stuff about adding midbass up front. At the moment I am planning on running 4 12's (either havocs or BLs) in the back off of about 6k watts total (probably 2 sundowns for amps). I am lookin at RF 5.25" comp sets for the doors (at least up front), more than likely an entire set per side, 1 speaker+tweet in the door and one in the A-pillar. Will I be needing midbass??? And if so, is it okay to put that in something like a kick panel instead of doing MAJOR refab work to the door?

midbass in doors, midrang in kicks, they get louder in the doors, more detailed in sealed kicks, iirc.

thanks. I was a little off about what to put where. Can anyone suggest any good midbass drivers?

Freq range? Size? Depth? Budget? Power?

Oh wow, I so should have saw that question coming. I am gonna have to double check, but I think my subs are going to be tuned to around 32Hz, so I am not entirly sure on midbass, this is the first time I have done this. Usually I just throw some 6x8's in and go, but I wanna do this one right. Budget, I would say I am trying to keep it around 300 a set. Depth, not to sure, either way I now fig I am gonna have to do some fab work to the door, so I can get some pods built into it. I still need to buy new amps for the mids and highs, so I am open on power at the moment to be honest.

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by truckaudioman

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Freq range? Size? Depth? Budget? Power?

Oh wow, I so should have saw that question coming. I am gonna have to double check

I would expect that you would answer questions in a bump.

I would too, lol. I am currently lookin at 6.5's and 8's for the the midbass. I am going to try and tune my subs to around 32-34 HZ range, so would something like 38Hz and up (not sure how high midbass goes up to) or so be good for midbass? This is a little new to me. Price, about 300 a set. As for power, I dont care, I am getting new amps. If it can get loud and handle good power, then that is good for me. Depth isnt going to matter anymore cause the guy that is building the panels said he is gonna fab me new doors for almost nothing.

Edited April 29, 200817 yr by truckaudioman

I wouldn't normally run my midbasses above 250hz, but it will depend a lot on the rest of the pieces that it has to blend with. In this case of course bigger is better although if you run monster midbasses I'd tune my sub box a lot lower in particular if you want to compete, although that brings up the question compete in what? 32-34hz is too low to compete in SPL and WAY too high to compete in SQ. I am guessing the former though.

Using two different sized drivers to do one job is plain old silly. If you are tuning your subs to 32-34Hz, they will peak 10-15Hz above that. Add cabin gain as well & I'm not sure why you want to crossover them so low. Midbass is usually considered the 2 octaves from 50-200Hz.

SWEETT! I was hopin someone would post something like that Neon. That is why I had questions marks by where I put it and stated I am new with this one. Now I know about what freq range I should be going with.

You need to look at the whole setup to decide that, not just a little part. On top of that it will take a lot of time playing around to really nail it in.

What all pieces do you have and are you looking to have?