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<blockquote data-quote="Stalin-ohaulic" data-source="post: 6963304" data-attributes="member: 585517">You have to understand what is happening in order to know whether it&#039;s ok to &quot;crank&quot; the bass knob. To get +3db, the amp tries to double the power at the frequency that the bass boost is centered at. To get +6 db, it has to double it again. (this is all done on the input side, so cranking the BB just causes you to clip like mad... since the amp is not going to put out more than 1000 watts)You COULD crank this open and set the gain playing a tone at its center frequencies, but then all frequencies above and below would be rather weak and this one would be strong. Even if the shop set the gain to put out 1000 watts at your subs nominal impedence, once you crank the bass boost it is going to cause your amp to clip like mad. I&#039;ve seen enough blown slash series amps to know this for a fact. Your little JL tech support guy might work for JL, but I&#039;d guess he&#039;s not bass boost happy.You can argue until you&#039;re blue in the face, but i&#039;m not going to make this up. You&#039;re the one who is going to be suffering with no bass if you repeat your mistake again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalin-ohaulic, post: 6963304, member: 585517"] You have to understand what is happening in order to know whether it's ok to "crank" the bass knob. To get +3db, the amp tries to double the power at the frequency that the bass boost is centered at. To get +6 db, it has to double it again. (this is all done on the input side, so cranking the BB just causes you to clip like mad... since the amp is not going to put out more than 1000 watts)You COULD crank this open and set the gain playing a tone at its center frequencies, but then all frequencies above and below would be rather weak and this one would be strong. Even if the shop set the gain to put out 1000 watts at your subs nominal impedence, once you crank the bass boost it is going to cause your amp to clip like mad. I've seen enough blown slash series amps to know this for a fact. Your little JL tech support guy might work for JL, but I'd guess he's not bass boost happy. You can argue until you're blue in the face, but i'm not going to make this up. You're the one who is going to be suffering with no bass if you repeat your mistake again. [/QUOTE]

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