best tone for setting gains

[the Answer 10+ year member]

40 hz? 50 hz? -3db? 0db?

what is the best?

edit: for sub, and using a DMM

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[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

Use pink noise, and with everything running full range, adjust your gains to match the levels between all your drivers. Then apply your filters and slopes.

 

[the Answer 10+ year member]

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[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

40 hz? 50 hz? -3db? 0db?
what is the best?

edit: for sub, and using a DMM

Sooo..... You ride around listening to just a subwoofer?
That's easy then, just turn the volume knob up on your amplifier until you hear or smell something you don't like, then back it off a smidgen.

lulz

 

[justafifteen 10+ year member]

I used 40hz@-3db, and then double-checked that my hardest-hitting songs weren't higher than that

 

[the Answer 10+ year member]

Sooo..... You ride around listening to just a subwoofer?
That's easy then, just turn the volume knob up on your amplifier until you hear or smell something you don't like, then back it off a smidgen.

lulz

thats what i thought about doing but i thoght na.