Fader control on Stereo (Tower Speakers)

[rsbskier]

I need some help connecting my four boat speakers and my two tower speakers. I want to use my fader
control to isolate my tower speakers so that they will only play. My tower speakers are running through an
amp, boat speakers are not. The way that it is wired now, my tower and rear speakers play at same time
when I use my front/rear fader and have it on rear.

[nicg]

I am almost going thru the same thing.I think your best bet IMO is to get another amp for your in-boat speakers and run two pac lc1's that way you will have the ability to easily turn up your tower and down your in-boat speakers or vise versa.This is what I am in the process of doing as I think it is the easiest and cheapest without bieng "ghetto".

[xlair]

If your boat speakers are wired directly to the HU then you will not be able to fade them out completely. I would recommend an amp for the boat speakers too. That way you can use the front RCAs for the tower speakers and the rear RCAs for the boat speakers. That would give you the fading capabilities that you are looking for.

[nautiques4life]

My set up is a little different, but I solved this problem using a remote volume control/bass knob. If you leave the tower speakers seperate from the cabin and amplify them seperately its real easy to hook up a remote volume control knob. I'm no where near an expert, and I'd listen to mike or david over me in a second, but for about $30 I have 2 little secret knobs under my dash that indipendently control the volume on my tower speakers and a second that controls just my sub.

Not sure which boat you have, I've got an 05 SANTE which means the head unit is in the glove box. For me I got tired of having to stand up and reach over to adjust the tower vs. cabin volume. I wanted to be able to have loud tower without making everyone in the boats ears bleed; OR turn off the tower while still running the cabin loud so that the entire launch ramp isnt forced to listen to my audio- and i didnt want to have to stand up to make the adjustment. From what I've read the WS 420 is a good way to have really good control but it didnt fit into my budget. For $10 bucks u can get a knob for volume or bass, then all you need to do is run some rca into the knob and another rca out to the amp, super easy and u have seperate control of just whatever is powered by the amp.

Sometimes hard to find at electronics stores, tons of them on ebay.

[TravisFling]

pac lc1

that's exactly what I did in my boat, and it works very well. Drilled a teeny hole through the dash so I have the knobs right there. Kicker amps often come with a bass control knob, which actually controls total volume from amp 1 or 2 or whatever, so you could use it for whatever you wanted. I have had great luck with this same setup, and it's very easy to run. So you would go out of the headunit with two sets of RCA's. Run each set into an independent LC1, and then from each LC1 to the separated amp, to give you independent control.