maybe a bad ground. try re-grounding the battery as well. or your gain is to high on the amp.

 

maybe a bad ground. try re-grounding the battery as well. or your gain is to high on the amp.

Well I finally decided to get into the amps and try a little bit of tuning to try and see if that might be the problem and sure enough I found out that where I had everything installed did a fantastic job on the install but did a lousy job of setting the gains on the amp. I checked the gains on the audiocontrol piece and on the amp and found out the amp was gained almost all the way up and the audiocontrol piece was gained all the way down. A simple flip flop of the gains and viola, I'm in heaven, no ticking, no noise, no nothing except sonic bliss.

On a side note, I was also finally able to turn up the gains on the audiocontrol piece for the new w6's today and I just barely touched it and now if I'm listening to any kind of hip hop or rap and half way turned up on the HU the whole truck starts shaking where before I really had to get into it for just the mirror to move.

Sorry for the rambling but I'm very excited that finally my system is doing what I knew it was capable of and anyone thinking about getting one of these audiocontrol pieces, do not hesitate, they are worth their weight in gold.

Thanks again for everyones help in this matter.

 

I checked the grounds and they are good. I also tried it out with the volume all the way down when the truck is off and their is no ticking noise.

Any other opinions would be appreciated.

 

Pull your RCA's from your amp that you hear the ticking noise. Turn your truck on and see if it still does it.
If your ticking problem is gone, I would go and look at your head unit. reground it and make sure your RCA's are good.

 

I like to do a quick gain baseline with tones to start...

60hz and 1khz tones.. DL, burn take to car/truck

turn everything down, EQ's to 0, loud off... flat...

play 1khz tone and turn up HU till you hear a distinct change in output, back off, hit that point, back off slightly and note level.. now HU MAX (for now)

Move the next component, the LC8, play 1khz at HU MAX, turn up till you hear a distinct change, back off, up, down...note.. LC8 MAX (for now)

Mid/high amp, play 1khz at MAX and turn up gain until a change is noted, back off, make sure and stay...

For the sub amp, now play the 60h tone and follow the procedure..

This should get you in a solid place AFA gain structure.. at this point it would be up to you to start in playing music you know well and REadjust all of the levels to YOUR taste...

The above is simply a baseline using tones.. being that music is dynamic, I like to baseline it first, THEN work in with music and possibly RTA if I was going that far..

Something to consider..

Cheers..