Dual gain controls...how to set???

[DaveVT 10+ year member]

Rockford 501s 2 channel with dual gain controls...Im running bridged and it says in the manual to set them both equally...how the hell do I do this? I know how to do it with a dmm and such but thats with a single gain control......

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[DaveVT 10+ year member]

impatient bump lol......startin to rain a lil I wanna get this done //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

 

[Kastlez_ 10+ year member]

You have two amps and strapping them together bridged?

 

[kramer_212 10+ year member]

just put them on the same number ex......both on 5 out of 11. since it will be bridged don't see it making that big of a difference even if its 20 watts off.

 

[DaveVT 10+ year member]

Ill try it.....I just dont want one channel clipping and one not....

@nickatina-no its one 2 channel amp with separate gain controls for each channel.

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

just measure it one channel at a time

 

[DaveVT 10+ year member]

just measure it one channel at a time

But I have them bridged...

 

[DaveVT 10+ year member]

Getting voltage but when I get close to my target voltage it seems the speakers are being a bit over driven. So I set it at 36v and am using the remote bass knob to give it a little extra here and there.

 

[Moble Enclosurs 10+ year member]

The gains are driven by a low power source input, so by using your bass knob, that could be causing the overdrive as it will take no more than a mm of gain to notice an audible difference when you increase the sensitivity from low input to a much higher input, which is what your bass knob is doing. I recommend not using that at all. If you use multiple gains on a single output, all but one can be down to get the same output for your voltage match. Using more than one gain will cause a huge increase in sensitivity and can cause inaudible clipping even when the gains are only used a bit. Recommend using only one gain for impedance and voltage matching and letting any other active gains set at minimum for a "passive" approach.