Easiest and cheapest way to set gains?

[Agoonygoblin 10+ year member]

SMD dd1 is good and all but its expensive as hell lol.

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[gckless 5,000+ posts]

Subs? By ear is cheapest. Sometimes hard to tell mids/highs distortion if you have never heard it before.

 

[I Like Waffle]

I set by ear, if you have good ears you can hear the distortion, i dont care what these spoiled ***** tell you. I set my stuff by ear and have yet to burn a set of coils i wasnt going to burn on purpose anyway

 

[Agoonygoblin 10+ year member]

I set by ear, if you have good ears you can hear the distortion, i dont care what these spoiled ***** tell you. I set my stuff by ear and have yet to burn a set of coils i wasnt going to burn on purpose anyway

yeah i can by ear but i wanted to do more accurately

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

O scope

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

yeah i can by ear but i wanted to do more accurately

Well do you want easiest and cheapest or most accurate? Two different things. Cheapest? Your ears. Most accurate? Oscope.

 

[Agoonygoblin 10+ year member]

Ive been looking cheapest oscope ive seen is for like 75

 

[murph 10+ year member]

Dmm from Walmart or Radioshack.

 

[Agoonygoblin 10+ year member]

Found my old multi meter lol

 

[blobb454 10+ year member]

Found my old multi meter lol

For sure cheapest way.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

I set by ear, if you have good ears you can hear the distortion, i dont care what these spoiled ***** tell you. I set my stuff by ear and have yet to burn a set of coils i wasnt going to burn on purpose anyway

This^

 

[quackhead 10+ year member]

yeah i can by ear but i wanted to do more accurately

it either clips or it doesn't....it does not get more accurate than that. By ear is the easiest and cheapest way to do it accurately..

 

[tc300 10+ year member]

I have some oz audio xovers.. When distortion starts they start to light up. Pulse with the music when there's distortion.....

 

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

I always set using a dmm. Its quick and easy way to set my gains to match the rms ratings of my speakers. I do add some fine tuning by ear.

When it comes to subs I tend to like to find the max point I can push them. That takes alot of testing by ear. I have yet to smoke a coil on a sub. And I love to beat the living shit out of my subs.

 

[momofx 10+ year member]

I recently started using an o-scope and man I wish I did so many many years ago!