The 30 day truck seems to have become a keeper

That big space needs 2 15s. Some radios you can turn the source volume up or down. Meaning turn whatever aux or Bluetooth volume up and down.

Back in the day Best Buy ran the power wire right on the exhaust manifold. That’s when I learned how to do my own stuff lol

Love the install. I would suggest putting a grommet around the power wire so it does not wear through and case an issue.

I used to have the same truck. But mine was a yukon. And i ran my system the same exact way. Same drilled hole in the floor and all. 2 years i had it no issues at all. I pulled it all when i sold it.

Yes, you definitely need a new head unit! That will allow you to actually tune that sub to its optimal frequency. After you figure out your preferred range you can tune the amp at the same frequency. You should never have to turn anything to it's max.

I got the same exact sub in my truck. Them skar 15s will rattle any and every that's lose. Love the videos!

Highly recommend doing sound deadening. Makes a world of difference.

The intro was dope

that's normal for AUX. It never is loud. Upgrade to a better headunit with Bluetooth. Amp settings differ between each head unit. Better headunits have a higher RCA output signal, which makes the amp require less gain. Another thing is turn your LPF up to 75-80hz. It'll give a lot more bass response, with the LPF all the way down to 50hz the amp will only allow frequencies of 50hz and lower to play through the sub. You won't hear much bass except for the lower notes. Also don't turn bass up on the headunit, that will give a dirty signal to the amp which will cause distortion and damage the sub. I got a complete Skar audio system in my car btw. I'm running TX68's all around, 2 Skar SDR 10's, RP1200 & RP75.4 amps. It sounds great

A head unit with dedicated subwoofer preamp outputs will make all the difference. The basic point without going into it too much is that will allow you to take the bass out of your door speakers and the treble out of your sub. That's 100% what you need, I'd recommend a mid level Pioneer head unit.

On the radio, put a high pass crossover on the speakers at 100hz to roll off the bass below that, should help with the speaker distortion. Add a low pass crossover to the subwoofer, experiment with 60-100hz and the slope of it to find what blends the best with the main speakers

It's your head unit buddy I had the same problem and I had to replace the head unit and it fixed the problem and it has been working good ever since

Literally just bought this same set up for my 4Runner. Still working through install. I’m having problems with my newer kenwood head unit as well.

Always create your own ground when installing an amplifier. Never utilize anything else that was present. Best thing I could suggest is drilling a hole through the floor, using a grommet and grounding it to the frame of the truck. Also, never use T-taps on anything

In Audio Settings, how's your Volume Offset? you can tune the loudness of each audio source there. So say play the radio and adjust Volume Offset to make louder ( I believe on mine at Zero is my loudest for each source), But check your CD, AUX and so on with some music playing on each and adjust accordingly. I had to do the same for Sirius, AUX and radio to make all equally loud. I hope it helps.. 🤞🤞

You motivated me to do this to my 96 tahoe. 🔥 on my own doing it too

I love how the cowl hood looks on the obs. Subs sound great 👌💪

Shortest length wire for negative to ground possible. There’s always a space in the firewall where oem wire is fed…safest opening to bring in power. Settings on the Kenwood should allow for input level based on source.

Go into the settings and look for the sub controller part of the head unit. I have the same kenwood, and it sounds amazing.

Is your phone volume all the way up, that was the case for me atleast, but it could very well be the head unit

get a new head unit and as for the amp tuning, have radio volume set to the highest volume that you will be listening to and turn bass knob all the way to max. turn down your gain to lowest for now and then turn bass eq to 12 dB then play a song and while it plays slowly turn up the gain until your liking or until you hear the sub clipping. sounds good but for a 15 it should definitely be hitting harder it barely moved the rearview mirror. if you cant turn up gain as much as you want without it clipping then turn bass eq to 6 and repeat the steps

There should be a setting on the head unit for “AUX VOLUME” and you can turn that up!

That’s because your source volume for aux is low. In my head unit there is option for source volume I don’t know if older units have that option. Check in settings if you have that option if not go for pioneer.

That headunit doesn't have enough preout voltage for your setup. You were right, new headunit time!

do a quick google search on using a multimeter to tune you gain, easy maths will get you close. LPF can be tuned up to around 80hz but at 50hz you are losing a ton of output due to the roll off, trust me and set an 80hz test tone on youtube and then adjust the LPF and around 80-90hz the output will be a huge increase. Leave the boost alone like you did, it should never be used like you were told. Once you adjust the LPF and make sure the headunit is also set to 80 or 100hz for roll off it will increase output wildly.

Glad you kept the truck them boggers look good on that truck also yeah new head unit and proper tune that single 15 will rock that truck for sure

Reach out to me and I'll walk you through the settings on the radio if needed. Kenwood has a volume offest for different source input. +-8 its in the menu on the radio. Select your source w src button. Then press volume knob to enter Function mode. Turn volume knob till screen says Audio Control. Turn thru settings till Volume Offset and adjust accordingly.

Great job bro. I love seeing videos of real people opinions on skar in any other brand ran along with it

Yeah you need your output from the radio isn't loud enough. I have the same exact amp on a 12 inch sub and it jumps out of the box. At this point you have nothing to lose by using the bass boost. That is what I did with mine and it was like night and day with the output. I am still using my stock radio and it works great. I used a LOC and things are great I can't even turn my radio to max volume because the bass is just that heavy. I don't have my BASS on my radio turn to 50%

Turn your LPF to 80 hz half way is 125hz so back it down to about 10 o'clock. SUBSONIC is a high pass filter to 30 hz half is 25 hz so 1 o'clock position would be 30 hz. Its hard on the amp if you dont set your filters and doesn't sound as clean🤙

There should be a setting in the radio that will have fm/am output, cd output, aux output, etc.. find aux output and turn that all the way up or wherever desired. Someone else probably just used the radio and found the am/fm output and turned that up already.

Pick up an Audio Control Lc2. Clean signal to the Sub is essential

You can get an affordable eq/dsp unit. it will make a drastic difference in your tunability.

Need a new radio, but make sure when your phone is on AUX, just like Blue Tooth, turn the volume button all the way up on your phone otherwise it won’t send its full volume to the head unit. Unless you are on CarPlay, you have to use the volume buttons on your phone for Bluetooth and Aux too. The LPF tells the subwoofer what to play. If it’s turned up to 80 hertz, the subwoofer will play 80 hertz and below, it limits the top end. The Subsonic tells the subwoofer not to play below a certain frequency. In a sealed box like Chomper, you won’t need it, but in a ported box, playing far below the tuning frequency could damage the subwoofer because you could unload the voice coil and blow the subwoofer. I’d recommend about 25 hertz on the subsonic since your box is tuned around 30 hertz.

You have your trigger wire hooked to your antenna. Trust me I'm 100% sure of this. I'm a 12 volt tech 17 year experienced installer. You don't need a new deck just move your remote turn on wire off your antenna wire

I used to a have a SKAR SDR 18” in my 02’ F150. That thing was so cool and fun. I definitely recommend you getting one

Well depending on if you have Factory inside speakers you might want to change those out and put in a 4-channel amp on your door speakers and rear speakers you'll get a lot better quality sound

I definitely would’ve drilled a bigger hole to run a grommet for the power wire coming off the positive.

Go into your Bluetooth settings for audio and make sure it’s on all instead of front speakers

I would definitely try going up on the low pass filter, atleast 1/3 of the way no more than half you be the judge of what you think sounds good. Only because you dont have all the proper tools to sent your amp up

TRY TURNING THE SOURCE LEVEL VOLUME UP IN THE SETTINGS ON UR KENWOOD HEAD UNIT...ALSO MAKE SURE THE LOUD SETTING IS ON HIGH ON THE KENWOOD & TURN UR PHONE VOLUME ALL THE WAY UP WHEN U PLAY MUSIC

Is your amplifier gain level adjusted correctly because if its not up correctly it might not sound as loud as it should. Get a PAC ground isolator 10× the rca booster. Also is your subwoofer rca hooked to subwoofer output. Dont forget to turn your low pass filter on your Skar amplifier to 150hz. I seen that its all the way down so your only being able to play the very low frequencies. Now leave the subsonic off like how you have it set.

Go to the audio setting on your head unit and adjust the aux volume. Same thing happened to me.

I just recently installed a skar 10 500rms. With about 370rms 1600x2 amp

You need a head unit with Bluetooth so you can adjust the source volume level adjustment

I suggest a Kenwood Excelon headunit. They are definitely some of the best headunits on the market.

I subscribed and each source could have a volume level in your menu on your headunit. My JVC has adjustments for each source. Radio is a fixed volume level so that might be why your radio is louder then your auxiliary jack. Just find the volume level on your headunit. It might only be adjustable when your have aux selected. Also the EVL or American Bass XFL or NVX is better than a Skar SDR.

Bluetooth radio makes a big difference

hpf should be set to 80 hz. for the door speakers in the head unit, it cuts the bass out of the speakers. bass boost should be off. playing music at max volume will introduce distortion, which is bad for the sub. when setting the gain on the amp, the bass knob must be all the way up. and your your volume issue between sources is a setting in the deck, source or input volume.

I had this exact same setup in my f150 sold it for 2 Skar 12 evls which hit way harder than

Buy a cheap rockville head unit. They have strong clear aux signal. Good sound just low power 10wx4 longs the doors are factory it will sound good

When connected to your aux….seems kind of obvious…but make sure the volume on your phone is turned all the way up

Turn phone volume up, and look at your head unit subwoofer and equalizer settings....Try turninn loudness on

That head unit might have an aux on off setting in the menu options too

That looks like a great set up my friend. Love the video. Definitely get yourself a new head unit would help tremendously another thing I found was trying the box in different directions sometimes facing the back causes distortion. Maybe try flipping it upward I found in my truck it sounded a lot better great video keep up the good work.

Upgrade the head unit plus door speakers and get some super tweeters and yea turn up the gain and subsonic on amp and watch the tail end start shaking like a stripper

Front aux level gain may need boosted. Generally, most aftermarket head units have a -6 to 0 to +6 adjustment. The fm may be at max while aux is 0.

My 01 suburban had a pioneer from the 00s and then i put a brand new kenwood BT unit in it and i noticed a huge subwoofer performance gain

Could you make a video talking about why an OBS SUV would be a great family car and the pluses and downsides of it

@Imfscrew- Just for reference, i have 30+ years of experience, in the car audio competition scene. First, what is the Model # of this deck/source unit? Second, does this unit have a dedicated Sub RCA pre-out? If this deck/source unit, has a set of Rear/Sub, RCA pre-out's, go into the Audio settings, and it should have the option of rear, or subwoofer, select subwoofer, then there should be a sub gain adjustment available, in your deck's audio settings( example: my deck's sub output adj. goes from -24 to +6 ) on the contrary to what some might think, 0 is not all the way up, and +6 is not a 6Db gain over 0.. What ever is the highest sub output level, that is what you should set it too, and adjust the amplifier gain to match that. Also in the decks settings, there should be an option for the LPF= Low pass filter settings, that should have choices like 30Hz, 40Hz, 50Hz, 60Hz, 70Hz, 80Hz, 90Hz, 100Hz, 125Hz, 160Hz, and or 200Hz. Most people use the 80Hz LPF setting, and run the -6Db per octave slope to smoothly blend into your full range speakers, as that is the standard for Thx certified home audio, as the x-over point, between subwoofers, and full range speakers. The volume being different using your phone( 1st make sure your phone volume is turned up), then go into the decks Audio settings, and go to Volume offset, and adjust this setting to its highest setting, or @ least higher than the radio sensitivity. This has a Cd player , you should be able to adjust your Volume offset settings to match the output of a very well recorded Cd, like Dixie Chicks, the Cd with the song, Wide Open Spaces= great Sq disc by the way. Also on your amp settings, turn your subsonic filter all the way down to off, which is not really off by the way. Then the amps LPF= Low Pass Filter, turn that all the way up to 220Hz, but only if you have LPF settings on/in your deck, then this will allow you to adjust where you want the LPF set, up front, again on your deck LPF setting i suggest 80Hz, @ -6Db per octave slope. And set your front and rear full range speakers high passed= HPF @ 120 Hz, @ -24Db per octave. Please turn down your bass settings to flat, with no bass boost. You should not need to do that after getting all of these settings, and x-over points right. Hope to get this decks model #, thanks.

We need a denim off road video!

I recommend getting a pioneer DEH S4220 head unit because I have a 8” skar sub and I used that one and I put it to 17 vol and it sounded great

Replace that old head unit, Do not use any additional sub level+ or bass boost from this head unit or a new one this introduces distortion 9.9/10 times lowering the life expectancy of your system, do all sub tuning from amp besides setting LPF/ crossover falloff in head unit settings.

You can try turning the headphone safety off in your phone settings I had the same problem

U have to flip the bass eq switch up more for those skar amp to hit

Another thing to do (obviously won’t fix the head unit issues) but go on your settings in the iPhone and go to music and set equalizer to “Late Night” …. Another problem you may have is that the RCA in the head unit is for front stage and not bass. Most modern head units have a subwoofer specific RCA output, older ones won’t have that, and you’ll have to run a DSP or crossover or something of that nature… not 100% sure on that but I’m pretty certain I’ve heard that said before

Most radios have a auxiliary volume output setting or if bluetooth then a bt volume output .. and also you can bridge the amp and get all the power the amp can give

I got an older kenwood and have the same problem, but use the aux and it gets the full sound out of your speakers

The Aux port may not be getting enough signal, could be a cable issue or the port on the aux. A newer head unit would be best, there should be some tuning options on the amp you can use to fine tune the sub. As I have installed car audio throughout the years I used Linkin Park's Nobody Listening to tune the system. There is a great range of low end, mids and highs to allow you to fine tune the head unit further.

If you like this type of content thats all i do on my channel. Great vid man.

I recommend the kenwood BT332U single din head unit it’s a nice radio and the audio settings are easy to use

I picked up a decent pioneer double den. (Pioneer DMH-120bt). Gives you eq settings and alot of other stuff. Good unit for a good price

Kenwood Excelon sounds fantastic!!

U may have the option to turn up ur aux volume in the settings

Turn your LPF knob to jut under half way. Having it set all the way down to 50hz is not allowing your sub to play any frequencies above 50hz. I usually set mine to 100hz.

Hey man try looking into the head unit settings and see if there is a fm level or source level adjustment for the aux and turn it up

bass boost is a no-no in cardio you will eventually go into protect mode and whenever you put your ground wherever you put it at make sure that you take the paint off or whatever you put it out because it’s not gonna get a true ground on it that will eventually go into protect mode too, and you will have problems

Try a portable Bluetooth receiver and turn the cord on the aux port on your radio and see if you a shutter or a lot of static or because the problem might be the headphone jack on your phone

Get a single din pioneer radio they work amazing for a subwoofer setup but you can’t turn it all the way up or it will distort and if you roll your front windows atleast half way down it will get louder also you shouldn’t add bass to the sub from the radio

Go through your radio settings to see if you have a aux level to turn up. I had head units that had them and you have to adjust your volume on your phone too.

Caddy roof racks on the obs would look good

Definitely sounding like a head unit issue. I upgraded to a Sony MEX-N5300BT in my Square and it’s a lot better than the cheapo Kenwood that was in it before.

Tune your amp. Adjust your gain

Big skar fan here The brake in period is long but it will sound better after that

Mines doing the same thing installed a 1200 watt pioneer amp with 12 inch subwoofer in my 2002 Chevrolet suburban with a duel single din radio the radio gets louder than Bluetooth and aux

Drill and tap your own ground on the body not the seat. It’ll help.

I’d say put a 40 hertz test tone through the head unit and tune ur amp that way to see if you can get some more out of it! Got the 12 inch version for my bronco

i had a problem when i was a hooking up my subs same radio but my problem is when i would hook up my aux cord into my phone it was be static key but i got two 6x9s in my doors and two 2 10 inch pioneer subs al in a single cab and about to get two 8s in my doors and it’s shakes the truck like crazy but love the channel dude

I've got the same problem with my alpine radio switching it out this week for Android 13 touch screen

U should have a gain in setting in deck For aux vol or gain

I had the same problem with my Yukon, turn the volume on ur phone up to fix the aux

it’s most likely something going on with your input balancer, its most likely in the negatives for your aux. idk how to change it on a single din but on touch screen double din’s theres an option where you can adjust it.

Head unit wattage output isn’t great I would recommend the Pinoneer avh1550nex or the dmhw2770new ran them in both my truck with plenty of different setups sub wise. Had a 15, 18, 12, and duals 10’s on both headunits no issues

Love the vids and keep up the good work love the new setup

What about rca’s allot of radio’shave a single rca for subs and you need one for those y splitters so you can get left and right signal to the amp for full power sometimes

Keep up the good work 👍.

This is well deserved for denim!🔊

Your phone can have a headphone limited volume. Check the settings on the iPhone

Would definitely recommend Sony for single din or a boss bcpa9 is perfect for a huge display