Mtx 801d amp turns on but no bass just high pitch sound sub is fine

It is actually in the controller, if you turn the remote all the way down and press on the controller until the bass goes off, you will be able to turn the bass up and down with the remote, mine worked but stopped after a month, I tried adjusting the amp but then I noticed that if I wiggled the knob on the remote that it would work, I mashed mine until it worked again and velcroed it to my console sonibcan get it on and off easily.

if you turn the bass setting in your radio down it will take the bass out, but may take some of the bass out of the subs as well, if this occurs and you still are not satified, you either have to get a car receiver with a non fading subwoofer preout, or you could get bass blockers for all the speakers you dont want the bass in

The amp is in need of testing. What you are describing is a bias voltage that is coming through the amp.

When an amplifier shuts the Bass off that means its going into protection mode otherwise it will burn out the outputs. One way is to turn your gains down, Pioneer amps are not the best amps for bass out there, they are more for car speakers, I personally wont use a pioneer amp to run my subwoofers especially if they are hard driven subs like JL , Kicker Solo's and MTX subs. But for now just turn the gains down to 3/4 and that should help u, you can also install a fan to keep your amp cooler, if this never happened before in 5 yrs and now it does then that means your amp is just tired and the inside components are overheating easily, thats common with Pioneer and Sony amps.

Good luck buddy.

Lex...

I am guessing the bass control is just a potentiometer that you plug in. It could be open and that is why the bass dies. As far as the switch goes, I am not familiar with the amp but it sounds like a crossover between low frequency and subsonic frequency.

check your amp to see if its on high or low setting in order for it to bump it needs to be on low thats all the bass settings and you shouldnt hear the words come out of your subs

had a friend with same problem...paid me to look at it and well...amp was just overheated or short/loose ground.

I had same problem with a TC6001 and get solution from MTX, not send to MTX instead MTX kindly sent a quotation for parts to be replaced, I can tell you what parts need to be replaced if you still need a solution.

if sound also goes away when throttle is released and sound returns when throttle is pressed down, then you have engine noise from car engine electronics. In older cars, this was quite noticeable when the cars had distributor caps. The electrical noise caused by arcing required for the spark plugs could be your issue. It is resolved with a noise filter which gets wired inline leading to your in-dash deck and power amp (if you have one). The filter can be found many places including Radio Shack and Crutchfield.com. First find your total wattage draw for each component of the sound system (deck and amplifier), then divide by 12 to get current draw through filter. Purchase that size filter or larger.

hi, first disconnect the rca input, then switch on headunit and if the amp produces a constant bass thump it then means it has an internal fault. if the amp idles quietly then replace the rca cable, or try connecting the headunit lineout feed directly to the bass amp, in this way you cud find out if your fault is coming from the headunit or the equaliser. cheers