"Also, it's better to cut frequencies than boost them- so to increase the bass response, you would cut back on the mids and highs, then compensate for the lost volume by turning up the volume louder and adjusting the amplifier gain."

Very well stated, Tony. And just to add my own two cents worth here, hopefully not overstating the obvious, but you are almost certainly better off with more gain from the empeg and less gain from the amplifier. Elsewhere in this bbs are formulaic instructions for setting the two gains relative to each other... but I've always taken an empirical approach to this by playing a zero-bit track (i.e, a CD of complete silence) with the head unit set to maximum gain. Then I set the amp gain to the point where I can just barely hear the system's floor noise. That seems to give optimum results.

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