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Where Should My HU EQ Settings Be Set At When I Set My Sub Amp Gain?
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<blockquote data-quote="trumpet" data-source="post: 8225479" data-attributes="member: 628688"><p>The gain or input sensitivity knob is only there to match the voltage of your input signal to the input section of the amplifier. There is no additional voltage created at this stage of the amplifier. It just needs to know <em>roughly</em> what it's working with. Is this signal strong? Is it weak? Set the gain too low and the amplifier never clips, but it may not sound loud enough. Set the gain too high and it clips often and it may clip hard with a very squared off wave.</p><p></p><p>The challenging part of understanding gain is that everything changes once you play music. A sound system can have gains set by ear by one or two trained people in a few minutes using music. In a properly designed and tuned system, there is no need to be afraid of a little clipping. If you're not clipping the transient peaks of music you're leaving good power unused. This is the <a href="http:////forums/usertag.php?do=list&amp;action=hash&amp;hash=1" target="_blank">#1</a> reason to not tune for 0 clipping. If you're applying massive amounts of continuous power to speakers or subwoofers then yes, tuning to allow clipping is asking for trouble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trumpet, post: 8225479, member: 628688"] The gain or input sensitivity knob is only there to match the voltage of your input signal to the input section of the amplifier. There is no additional voltage created at this stage of the amplifier. It just needs to know [I]roughly[/I] what it's working with. Is this signal strong? Is it weak? Set the gain too low and the amplifier never clips, but it may not sound loud enough. Set the gain too high and it clips often and it may clip hard with a very squared off wave. The challenging part of understanding gain is that everything changes once you play music. A sound system can have gains set by ear by one or two trained people in a few minutes using music. In a properly designed and tuned system, there is no need to be afraid of a little clipping. If you're not clipping the transient peaks of music you're leaving good power unused. This is the [URL="http:////forums/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1"]#1[/URL] reason to not tune for 0 clipping. If you're applying massive amounts of continuous power to speakers or subwoofers then yes, tuning to allow clipping is asking for trouble. [/QUOTE]
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