Phoenix Gold Phorum

So if you have a PG EQ with the crossover on it with the highpass and lowpass outputs, does that mean you can disregard the headunit sub output and use that instead?

Is that port providing the same function as the basscube? (as you can adjust the lower EQ curve to enhance the bass)

finkle636 wrote:So if you have a PG EQ with the crossover on it with the highpass and lowpass outputs, does that mean you can disregard the headunit sub output and use that instead?

Is that port providing the same function as the basscube? (as you can adjust the lower EQ curve to enhance the bass)

The EQ will be able to perform a portion of what the bass cube can do, although I'm not sure in terms of circuitry if they are doing things differently. The basscube allows boosting at a certain frequency between 20-110Hz and gives you different "Q" settings. That technically can be done with an EQ... however, the bass cube has a subsonic filter that the EQ does not. It also has a remote that controls some of these settings.

All that said, I would think the gain stages on the bass cube would be "better" than those on the EQ. Besides, boosting with an EQ is sketchy territory, you don't want to do it too much. A somewhat general rule of thumb with EQ'ing is if something is too quiet and you want more of it, you lower everything else instead of boosting that one quiet frequency. You then turn up the overall gain somewhere "upstream" from the EQ (or in the EQ output), basically drive the EQ harder to get back up to the same overall volume after lower most of the frequencies on the EQ.

Someone else should explain that...