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<- having a beer at a brewery in Detroit Lakes, MN at the moment looking at the lake. Complete deja vu like nuts for me though as I grew up across the lake almost exactly the direction I am looking.

Nashville, Memphis, Charleston, Charlotte, etc. Tons of neat options further North too, but like N MN at some point it is the wrong time of year to go.

I asked for two reasons. First outside of some major cities the beauty in North America is the country but you could still do food culture and get country. 2nd, knowing port of departure and time lets you use the el cheapo ticket search from X on Kayak. https://www.kayak.com/explore/ORL?budget=338 Personally the trip you propose sounds like a good opportunity to go someplace you will never in your life go again. Sometimes those trips are the best. Time of year would tell a lot though as well, for instance going to Northern MN even a week after the leaves fall is a huge mistake. Definitely some place everyone should see but not then. Assuming the timing of your question I figured something on the mid-Eastern seaboard would make sense....of course you could maybe even drive then which is not a bad idea for photos.

Leaving from FL I assume? How far are you willing to drive?

When it has to be done it has to be done.

I wish I still had the time you have. Sounds FUN!

Not really. I made an assumption, perhaps a poor one, but the average person who would have asked what you asked would not have perhaps the detailed understanding that you might. Just so you know, the auto mode on the 360 is pretty much useless. t/a, phase, eq, crossover, level, balance are all adjustable. There are tons of settings and while yes, to your preference covers everything the details of what can be done, how it is done, and the reality of its implementation are not so simple. Considering level is the easiest of all to understand and implement when a thread is made asking about that the natural assumption is that you were hoping to plug in the 360 and be wowed. Nailing the crossover and interacting with your install is far from trivial but hugely rewarding when done right.

got the text while driving to Grand Forks.

That is what her house is for.

That is only the tip of the iceberg but ok.

My comment wasn't about gain, but getting some real use out of the 360. It is quite the processor and to be worth the $ implementation isn't trivial. Goal is to help you get the most out of it. Gain is somewhat of a misnomer. It is indeed what an amp does, but the "gain knob" on an amp is just an input sensitivity knob. At the same time, the output of your headunit at full output could be .5, 1, 2, 4, 5, .... volts. With the 360 you can adjust the output level of every channel (I am assuming, don't own one but if you can't it is a POS processor). This means if you want to have the passenger tweeter 2dB louder than the drivers (a differential is always required to sound good) you can. Same with the mids and sub/s. All channels can be tailored both in output level as well as crossover and equalizer. (again I am making an assumption on the 360.3 as I haven't used one, but even $100 processors allow this so it better). Same can be said for phase. Every driver should be able to swap phase on a processor. I've NEVER seen an installation where everything in phase (electrically) works. Flipping one or more than one driver has always improved things greatly. In my truck it makes the difference between the mids hitting you in the chest and you wondering if I have anything playing midbass. Super extreme. That all being said there are a TON of variables you can set. Making sure you contemplate them is critical for a good installation. The more we know about what you are doing the more we can help. Last comment on gain setting. Any method you read about that requires ANY measuring is useless...in particular with a processor like you have. The last thing you want to do is use a DD-1 paperweight or even an oscilloscope. Both will only make things worse and are pointless. Not saying you were going to do that, but just for others reading they are terrible mechanisms to do this in particular since you will be changing your output sensitivity based on the processor.

Ha, I resemble that statement.

Really? I haven't seen that...yet. Interesting for sure.

HBD!! Not sure how I missed this, sorry mang. Hope it was a great one!!

I would have to google either of them to answer, no.

Would help to know everything else you have as well. Adding 4 SXMP's isn't as simple as getting an amp and 4 speakers.

I am running one of the MVPA's in my car on a pair of 10's and it does really well. It does like some input voltage, but nothing extreme as long as you aren't using a wimpy phone output as the sole input.

No. Mids and mono doesn't work. Neither do sxmp drivers without help and tons of processing.

In general you set your gain once. It is input sensitivity. This means of course if you can change your output level via a processor you are by default changing your gain. So even with a processor you need to set your gain but it doesn't mean that you won't end up changing it with the processor. I am a little concerned about your plans using a 360 to run active if this is a question. Would be good to share your whole plan so we can help

Rockford isn't so nice when you get there either. Where you going?

Contemplating building a Bluetooth boombox myself. For me it is to use on the "trailer" we bring to the lake that holds all our shit.

That is horribly lame. We start after Labor Day which IMO makes sense.

Nice. We made shit too but things like beer pickles, pickles, pickles green beans, rhubarb strawberry jam, banana bread, zucchini bread and cake . I feel like I left off a few too. Home make weekend.

Yes, turn all that down and set it up right before you destroy your sub. While you are at it you should share some details on the enclosure it is in...

I may unbottle some