Race van sound setup

enumbers

Hi lads
looking for some help currently getting stuff together to do a race van conversion on a relay. looking for some help on the best way to get decent sound quality an volume to everyone on board.Its a big enough space will be insulated but still gonna have quite a bit of road noise so want to do it right.

Any advice on speaker quantity, brands layout subs needed or not. what amp setup etc.

Not expecting to be able to do for nothing but not looking for premium quality just a good listening experience.

Regards

MobileAudio

First thing I would do in a van is some good quality sound deadening on the large panels to stop resonance and noise.

For the audio you could put a set of components in the cab area. Would definitely be worth putting a sub up front also, possibly under one of the front seats if there is space. Then amp these as needed. For the rear I would just use coax speakers, quantity will kind of depend on the layout you are doing, how many seats and there positions will determine where best to place them and how many to use. Again a sub in the rear will make a massive difference. I would recommend going for something of reasonable quality as the cheapo stuff you find in car accessory stores will get fairly tiring on the oul ears on a long journey, usually because they use polypropylene or some other cheap plastic or metal for the tweeters.

enumbers

Any brands I should be looking out for that offer best value for quality . Van layout at the moment planned to be 2 swivels in the front and 2 behind with a small table between .

Planned on putting dynamat type on all panels before insulation will be trying keep road noise to a minimum as gonna be doing long distances in it

Eric Cartman

enumbers wrote: »

Any brands I should be looking out for that offer best value for quality . Van layout at the moment planned to be 2 swivels in the front and 2 behind with a small table between .

Planned on putting dynamat type on all panels before insulation will be trying keep road noise to a minimum as gonna be doing long distances in it

for head units , kenwood or pioneer , most of the others are either seriously lacking in features or have poor sound

subwoofers : pioneer, JL, MTX, JBL, there are others, but you should be able to find something for your needs from these.

MobileAudio

If it is just going to be the four seats I would just put a set in the front and one more set in the back either side of the van pointing rearwards towards the passenger seats. If you just want some bass added to round off the sound one sub would probably be enough in this situation also, and an amp to drive it all. I don't think head unit power will cut it for the speakers in a van as it is a larger space and bound to be noisier then a car TBH, even with sound deadening, paneling etc.

For brands, head unit wise you could use nearly anything as long as it is from a known brand, I would go Alpine or Pioneer. Speakers and sub JL Audio.

enumbers

Thanks for that lads will start gathering up some bits soon
just trying to get a idea in my head of what I needed to put in place before paneling