My understanding, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, is that cutting the mic wires is due to the noise cancellation being played through the factory sub, and by extension the added sub since we're tapping into the factory sub which can cause poor sound quality/playback - not required for functionality but would improve quality.Caleylynn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:25 amFor anybody who was oblivious like me as to where to connect your LOC’s 12v wire to, connect it to the purple accessory wire that’s on the first harness going to your stock amp. At first I tried connecting it to the main power wire on my amp, & although that worked, when I turned my car off the bass would go up VERY loud for like 5-10secs & then shut off. I knew I needed to connect it to the accessory wire or a wire that only got hot when I turned the car on but I could not find a wire diagram ANYWHERE on the internet or a straight answer on which wire was the accessory wire on any forum, so I had to take my tester light & test each individual terminal & figure it out myself. Hopefully this helps someone! (Btw I didn’t have to cut my green microphone wire)
My best guess if you have you amp set to expect to see high level inputs as if you put the sub speaker wire straight into the amp(this is what you should do if you amp has it) this would give you less output with the gain all the way maxed out than what you would get if your amp was set to low level inputs with the gain at nothing. Making you think something wrong but in reality it’s just too quite to hearconaigh wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:41 amThanks for the reply. I haven't had much time to "work" on this besides a ton of googling/attempts at research. I basically got the amp/dsp/sub for free and didn't know exactly what I was getting. It was working in the Q50 it came out of, just missing some wires, primarily the power/ground/remote in and out plug for the DSP. I'm not too concerned about it as from what I've read, it seems a bit overkill since I wouldn't plan on wiring everything through it, just the sub.
Looking into the amp I have, it seems it can take high level input via the RCA inputs, which I didn't understand when I initially posted. I think my error in the beginning was either in how I had the LOC wired (someone elsewhere told me I had it wired wrong and with the LP7 to take white solid and gray solid to one line, and stipes to another when tapping the rear woofer line, but that contradicts what the instructions say) or settings on the amp itself.
I need to snag a short RCA as I don't want to cut my nice 25ft one and tap it into the rear woofer line but am thinking that's where my problems were.