I have an old GE SONIC Equalizer that came out of my dads truck about ten years ago and i recently just bought an old truck and hooked up an old cassette/amfm radio up in it and my dad told me thata i can have the equalizer if i can hook up. But the real problem is that the wiring label on the bottom of the machine is worn off and i have searched this damn internet for three days and i cant find anything about it. So maybe somebody can help me. THere are 11 wires coming out of it total counting the two main wires(Live and Ground) that's all i know so far could anybodoy help me out. I would greatly apppriecate it. Thank You Vintageman.
Eek. There may be some standard wiring colors going on with it... but being so old, I'd hate to really even try. Are there RCA connectors on the back of it? And a red wire, black wire, and yellow wire (in addition to two colored pairs.. one solid, one striped, of each color? Maybe white, grey, green, or purple?) Seriously though - I'd skip the EQ. The EQ is something that might be helpful down the road...when you've got a system that's fairly well ironed-out as is... good speakers, amplification, source unit... Currently, you'll end up making very large adjustments that really don't seem to affect the sound much to the end of improving it... all you'll notice are tonal differences. With a system that's ironed out, the EQ requires very small adjustments to make relatively significant differences in sound. And even with an ironed out system - you'll end up swearing at your EQ. I'd save yourself some headaches, and not bother. It's like the bass and treble knobs, also... in the hands of those who aren't experts... you'll just find them simply cranked one way or the other... often "all the way up", by people that think they provide "boost". Anyways, consider the questionable wiring a good excuse (just one of many - seriously!) to not include an equalizer in your system. Whenever I can avoid it (quite seriously!) I don't include one in my cars.
Oh - and welcome to the forum, btw! Feel free to post a message in our "new members" forum so that people know you are here, and who you are, what you are interested in, etc. B)
