Ok, I don't have a dmm yet. Now you say it's something to do with my gains set wrong (even though i swear it did better before) Now I haven't been able to accurately tune it yet but I've been toying with it and I would assume dropping the gains would prevent protection mode from happening more often, but it honestly seemed like turning it down didn't help that much. It still randomly protects itself when barely being pushed. Will setting my crap with a dmm really stop my problem?