Turning wires into RCA's

[Huber55@gmail.com]

Hey guys, my friend is hooking up subs without an aftermarket deck and
just bought a lil device made by Scosche that takes the wires from
your speakers and uses that signal and turns it into an RCA signal for
your amp. Now ive tried reading the directiions and i think i do get
it but i want to make sure that im doing this right anybody got any
suggestions??

[s3sqguy]

Yes a cut down or knock down we called them. You wire your speakers into
one end and RCAs come out the other for your amp. Usually have a gain or
both gains on them to set the level. Often you can even run speakers too
with it as its high ohms (in other words you can tap into your speakers
and don't usually have to disconnect them unless you want to) .

That is all you do, wire the right/left pos and neg into it like an amp
high level, hook it up and mess with the gains so it sounds right. Note
they usually are not as clean as RCA from a deck depending on quality
of your deck, but with subs it may not matter that much. It does the
same thing as the high level input of an amp would. Make sure you
ground it well if it has a ground. Set it up so you don't ever turn the
deck all the way up and distort it, sending distortion into an amp is
not good.


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s3sqguy

[Huber55@gmail.com]

On Jun 8, 1:34 pm, s3sqguy <s3sqguy.2rv...@no-mx.forum.carstereos.org>
wrote:
> Yes a cut down or knock down we called them. You wire your speakers into
> one end and RCAs come out the other for your amp. Usually have a gain or
> both gains on them to set the level. Often you can even run speakers too
> with it as its high ohms (in other words you can tap into your speakers
> and don't usually have to disconnect them unless you want to) .
>
> That is all you do, wire the right/left pos and neg into it like an amp
> high level, hook it up and mess with the gains so it sounds right. Note
> they usually are not as clean as RCA from a deck depending on quality
> of your deck, but with subs it may not matter that much. It does the
> same thing as the high level input of an amp would. Make sure you
> ground it well if it has a ground. Set it up so you don't ever turn the
> deck all the way up and distort it, sending distortion into an amp is
> not good.
>
> --
> s3sqguy

well see thats what i thought it would be to just a simple left/right
pos and neg hook up but then on the other side of the unit it seems
like u hookup another set of wires to run to the same rear speakers.
Also the unit looks as if it was meant for 4-speakers, so would it be
ok to run just the rears??