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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8578699" data-attributes="member: 650438">just use your ear, play and monitor for 5 minutes, if the amp and sub get hot or smelly, back it down.&nbsp; If it is ice cold, you can go up a bit.&nbsp;&nbsp; When its room temperature borderline warm then you are at a good spot.There&#039;s a big flaw when setting gains with a multi-meter and thats&nbsp; purely from the way music is recorded. Music is not a test tone and there&#039;s large variances in bass strength depending on your genre and specific songs.&nbsp; You always need to adjust your bass on the go to match the song you have this is called active gain setting. There is no one setting fits all which is passive gain setting aka turning it up to X amount on the head unit and leaving it like that.Monitoring heat is always the safest way to set gains. Multi-meter method either pigionholes you out of output or puts you into clipping territory depending on what test tone you use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8578699, member: 650438"] just use your ear, play and monitor for 5 minutes, if the amp and sub get hot or smelly, back it down. If it is ice cold, you can go up a bit. When its room temperature borderline warm then you are at a good spot. There's a big flaw when setting gains with a multi-meter and thats purely from the way music is recorded. Music is not a test tone and there's large variances in bass strength depending on your genre and specific songs. You always need to adjust your bass on the go to match the song you have this is called active gain setting. There is no one setting fits all which is passive gain setting aka turning it up to X amount on the head unit and leaving it like that. Monitoring heat is always the safest way to set gains. Multi-meter method either pigionholes you out of output or puts you into clipping territory depending on what test tone you use. [/QUOTE]

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