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No one on YT explains this about setting sub amps Gain! grrr
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<blockquote data-quote="Buck" data-source="post: 8777370" data-attributes="member: 591582"><p>To me, tuning the gain on amp with tones is like tuning a racecar without actually driving it on the track. It's like tuning a drag car on the dyno and thinking it'll perform flawlessly on the track. Tuning with tones might work, but I don't see how you beat tuning your system with the songs that you actually play, because I doubt you're riding around listening to pure tones, you know? Like, I used to listen to some Wakka Flocka songs. I was into slowing songs somewhat, just for myself, and I would run songs through audacity. I thought I was only going to slow down and demo songs that weren't clipped. Holy hell was I wrong; I would barely have any songs to play if I did that. I couldn't believe how many songs were clipped. Your favorite loud bass song? Probably clipped to hell, that's why it's louder than your other songs. I found that to be true A LOT, and I was looking at the waveforms of the bass in a program. What good is setting the amp to a non-clipped signal when many of your favorite bass songs probably are running massively clipped signals? You see what I mean? You can fry subs that way, because you trust in the tones, maybe not knowing some of your songs send more signal than even a -3db tone does. Literally tested this for myself when I used to go to shows and demo for hours at a time. Clipping matters when you're demoing 2 18's all day, playing down in the 20's hard, and it's like 90 degrees outside. Clipping adds that heat in very fast. That's really why you have to get the deep knowledge going, so you kinda get a 6th sense about how things should sound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck, post: 8777370, member: 591582"] To me, tuning the gain on amp with tones is like tuning a racecar without actually driving it on the track. It's like tuning a drag car on the dyno and thinking it'll perform flawlessly on the track. Tuning with tones might work, but I don't see how you beat tuning your system with the songs that you actually play, because I doubt you're riding around listening to pure tones, you know? Like, I used to listen to some Wakka Flocka songs. I was into slowing songs somewhat, just for myself, and I would run songs through audacity. I thought I was only going to slow down and demo songs that weren't clipped. Holy hell was I wrong; I would barely have any songs to play if I did that. I couldn't believe how many songs were clipped. Your favorite loud bass song? Probably clipped to hell, that's why it's louder than your other songs. I found that to be true A LOT, and I was looking at the waveforms of the bass in a program. What good is setting the amp to a non-clipped signal when many of your favorite bass songs probably are running massively clipped signals? You see what I mean? You can fry subs that way, because you trust in the tones, maybe not knowing some of your songs send more signal than even a -3db tone does. Literally tested this for myself when I used to go to shows and demo for hours at a time. Clipping matters when you're demoing 2 18's all day, playing down in the 20's hard, and it's like 90 degrees outside. Clipping adds that heat in very fast. That's really why you have to get the deep knowledge going, so you kinda get a 6th sense about how things should sound. [/QUOTE]
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