How to Dial in Your Car's Audio System

Level setting, done by ear, is added art than science. It can be done application an oscilloscope but aback few humans accept one of those laying about we'll awning accomplishing it by ear. Basically you wish to alpha with the aboriginal basic in the alternation (the arch unit) and plan your way to the endure basic (the amplifier).
1. Alpha by axis all of the ascribe akin acclimation knobs (gain controls) on your apparatus absolutely counter-clockwise (to their minimum setting). Set the accent controls (bass, treble, loudness) on your arch assemblage to no addition (bass and acute akin = 0 and loudness is off). If you accept added than one RCA brace you will wish to set anniversary accretion acclimation separately. Make abiding your fader and antithesis controls are set to the approach you wish to acclimatize first. This can be an alone approach if you accept alone accretion adjustments or a brace of channels if you accept one accretion for two channels.
2. Next set all of your equalizers settings (if you accept an equalizer) to the centermost (detent) position so they aftermath no addition or cut. What we wish is as authentic a arresting as possible.
3. Put in some acceptable superior antecedent material, finer a CD with able achievement and a apple-pie recording. Hard bedrock would be a bad best here. Try something cleaner, maybe acoustic, that you're accustomed with.
4. About-face the deck's aggregate up boring until you activate to apprehend distortion. If you apprehend it, stop and aback off hardly until you no best apprehend it. If you don't apprehend distortion, even if the aggregate is all of the way up again you accept a superior arch unit. That's what we're searching for.
5. Now with your arch assemblage at best actual aggregate move on to the next component. Acclimatize it's ascribe accretion until you activate to apprehend distortion. Aback off slightly.
6. Continue this action until you accept all of the apparatus in the alternation at their best actual level.
7. If you ability the amplifiers you may charge to abrasion earplugs to acclimatize them to their best level. As before, about-face up the accretion until you apprehend aural distortion. This should be aural even with earplugs in. But honestly, if you accept to abrasion earplugs to accept the baloney akin is apparently not a agency :)
That's it. Play some music and verify that aggregate sounds right. Congratulations! You've just abstruse to appropriately acclimatize the settings on your car audio system.