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Bronze Member Username: DiehlermanPost Number: 19 Registered: Jan-08 | I was doing some searching on here and basically what I came up with to prevent clipping your amp is buy one that produces more rms than what your subs can handle so your gain is not all the way up so your not pushing the crap out of it, and setting your gain properly. correct? but, when you are setting your gain how do you hook up your dmm to the amp? and can you use just any music or does it have to be a certain or something like a bass test? |
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Gold Member Username: N2audioLawrence, Ks USA Post Number: 1495 Registered: Mar-04 | power of the amp vs power of the speaker doesn't effect clipping. You can have a 1000w amp and a 50 w speaker and still clip it if you don't set the gain correctly. Clipping is avoided simply by setting the gain accurately. http://www.subwoofertools.com/forum/setgain.asp For a subwoofer amp use a 0dB 50hz test tone, for a full-range amp 0dB 1000hz will work well. You can get the tones from realmofexcursion.com Once you have them burn them to a disk and you should be good to go. You set the DMM to ac volts and probe the speaker terminals of the amp. |
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Gold Member Username: SomedonniedudeIllinois United States Post Number: 1106 Registered: May-07 | You need a flat 0db tone within the frequency your amp will be reproducing, JL recommends 50hz. The DMM would be connected into the + & - output channels on your amp. Also, don't forget you can send a clipped signal to your amp from the head unit. |
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Gold Member Username: SomedonniedudeIllinois United States Post Number: 1108 Registered: May-07 | Beat me too it lol. |