by cargodz » Wed May 02, 2007 12:09 am
solacedagony wrote:The "ear method" works as well. Just listen carefully for any distortion or bad sounds and back your gain down just slightly. For the sub, turn off the low pass filter (the thing that stops higher frequencies from playing out of your sub), set the gain and you'll be ok.
Although I do use this method myself much of the time for highs, I do not recommend this method for bass... especially for the novice... as many times it is harder for people to catch minor distortion in bass tones and they still may have the gains set to high... I'm not saying that it's not capable of being done by ear, just that I do not recommend as I have seen far to many that have been set to high causing problems using this method.
For as cheap as a dmm is and a calculator... you can't go wrong

[quote="solacedagony"]The "ear method" works as well. Just listen carefully for any distortion or bad sounds and back your gain down just slightly. For the sub, turn off the low pass filter (the thing that stops higher frequencies from playing out of your sub), set the gain and you'll be ok.[/quote]
Although I do use this method myself much of the time for highs, I do not recommend this method for bass... especially for the novice... as many times it is harder for people to catch minor distortion in bass tones and they still may have the gains set to high... I'm not saying that it's not capable of being done by ear, just that I do not recommend as I have seen far to many that have been set to high causing problems using this method.
For as cheap as a dmm is and a calculator... you can't go wrong :thumbsup