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Im starting to think that the DD-1 is fine and Im messing things up.
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Soooooo....
Tune amps with engine off?
I did tune with the engine off
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I tested out my DD-1 on my high amps. It worked just as good as the first day I set them. Im not sure what is going on with the sub amp. Maybe it is setting correctly but when I did the old sub amp that I had the gain was set alot higher than what it is with this one. Not sure what could be going on.
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My Pioneer DEH-600UB is 60/60 clip free
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Re test the 4 channel and see if it starts to do the same thing. If it doesnt, then there could be something wrong with your bass amp? Any friends with equipment to test the dd1 with?
I will try that out tomorrow.
What could be wrong with the amp?
What type of equipment?
Equipment as in do you know anyone that has amps and such in the car that you can test the dd1 with to make sure that something isnt wrong with your amp. Im not saying that there cant be something wrong with the DD1. I think that that t his would be easiest thing to do. Im not sure what could be wrong with the amp, just throwing out some suggestions.
Oh I got you. Yea Im going to test it out on my highs amps today to see if the readings come out the same.
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if you have a gain knob up front make sure you raise it up all the way when i was using the dd1 i wouldnt get distortion or signal at all and when i checked i had the gain knob all the way down so make sure its up all the way if you have one.
I dont have a gain knob up front
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Re test the 4 channel and see if it starts to do the same thing. If it doesnt, then there could be something wrong with your bass amp? Any friends with equipment to test the dd1 with?
I will try that out tomorrow.
What could be wrong with the amp?
What type of equipment?
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I bought my DD-1 for christmas. Might have to buy a new one since the one I did buy isnt working to well.
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What kind of amp are you using?
Diamond Audio D3-800.1
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So you had bass boost up just like it tells you not to? And then decided to crank your gain after it was set because your gain was lower than the idiot who earfucked the gain before you? This is awesome.
I think u should read the manual again pal.. Step 5. If you have a "bass boost" switch set it to where you think it will be set when used.
Next off I never said I cranked my gains. I was talking about how the DD-1 is telling me two different distortion points on one track which doesnt make sense.. Then how is it going to set my gain lower on a -15db track than what it did on a -5db track.. Isnt the gain suppose to be set higher because from what the manuel says the -15db track is suppose to be louder system..
i think your dd1 has a problem with you
It worked fine on my two 4channel amps and my old sub amp
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I received my DD-1 for christmas and set the gains on all 3 of my amps that day with no problem. I bought a new sub amp today and plugged it up with the settings like it was from the previous owner. It sounded awesome but I wanted to tune it with the DD-1 to make sure I was distortion free. I turned the freq all the way up, left the bass boost where it was with the previous owner which was half way, hooked up the DD-1, turned the volume up the my max volume and started turning up the gain. When the distortion light came on I bumped the gain down to turn off the light and noticed that the GAIN LEVEL WAS LOWER THEN BEFORE I started tuning it. In my mind I was thinking about tuning it with track 7 and for some odd reason I turned up the gain with the DD-1 still hooked up the distortion light kicked back on then made a popping sound from where the ground and positive lead connected. I hurried up and turned the gain down all the way. I turned my radio to track 7 to tune it. I started turning up my gain and when the distortion light kicked on I bumped the gain back down to turn the light off. The gain was even lower than what it was when I did it the first time on track 3. Did I mess up the DD-1 by that popping sound?
You sure that the leads were not touching eachother when they made the pop sound? Why would you care if the gain was lower then were the guy had it set at, it wasnt set correctly then.
Yea I tried resetting my amp 5 times and its still giving me different reading..
Again I dont give a shit about how the gains were set by the other guy.. I was talking about how the DD-1 is telling me two different distortion points on one track which doesnt make sense.. Then how is it going to set my gain lower on a -15db track than what it did on a -5db track.. Isnt the gain suppose to be set higher because from what the manuel says the -15db track is suppose to be louder system..
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So you had bass boost up just like it tells you not to? And then decided to crank your gain after it was set because your gain was lower than the idiot who earfucked the gain before you? This is awesome.
I think u should read the manual again pal.. Step 5. If you have a "bass boost" switch set it to where you think it will be set when used.
Next off I never said I cranked my gains. I was talking about how the DD-1 is telling me two different distortion points on one track which doesnt make sense.. Then how is it going to set my gain lower on a -15db track than what it did on a -5db track.. Isnt the gain suppose to be set higher because from what the manuel says the -15db track is suppose to be louder system..
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Did you have the car running....or were you draining the battery while you were messing with everything?
Car was running
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make sure if you have a EQ you need to set it to flat, and for bass boost you can turn it up but you wont be able to set your gains higher so just set it to where you like it then set gains from there
EQ was set to flat, bass boost set to where I wanted, freq was all the way up, H/U was at the max volume without clipping.
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And why do you have the bass boost halfway up? That will clip the signal even sooner.
I set my last amp the same was and it sounded awesome. Im going to have to test it on my highs amp to see if it works correctly
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he said he used track 7 first, then tried track 3. Then went BACK to track 7 and the gain was lower when the light came on.
No I started at Track 3 then went to Track 7. The gain for Track 7 was lower than what the gain was for Track 3 and that was after the popping sound. I went back to Track 3 after and the gain was even lower than what it was the first time I set it with Track 3
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I received my DD-1 for christmas and set the gains on all 3 of my amps that day with no problem. I bought a new sub amp today and plugged it up with the settings like it was from the previous owner. It sounded awesome but I wanted to tune it with the DD-1 to make sure I was distortion free. I turned the freq all the way up, left the bass boost where it was with the previous owner which was half way, hooked up the DD-1, turned the volume up the my max volume and started turning up the gain. When the distortion light came on I bumped the gain down to turn off the light and noticed that the gain level was lower than what it was set before I started tuning it. In my mind I was thinking about tuning it with track 7 and for some odd reason I turned up the gain with the DD-1 still hooked up the distortion light kicked back on then made a popping sound from where the ground and positive lead connected. I hurried up and turned the gain down all the way. I turned my radio to track 7 to tune it. I started turning up my gain and when the distortion light kicked on I bumped the gain back down to turn the light off. The gain was even lower than what it was when I did it the first time on track 3. Did I mess up the DD-1 by that popping sound?
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If i add a second battery would the factory alt be able to charge both of them?
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Biggest deep cycle and do the big 3, pass on the capacitor. What kind of car?
I have a 2004 chevy impala
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I currently have a walmart battery under the hood but it just isnt working out anymore. I have two 800watt 4channel amps and I recently added a JL 1000/1 for my subs. When I would crank it up on a song with a hard hitting low note the JL amp would kick off and the Low V light would come on for a few seconds. Now Im no expert but Im guessing that means Low Volts. So today I reset all my gains with my SMD DD-1 to see if that would fix anything and it is still doing that. People keep telling me to try a compacitor, new battery or Big 3. I was thinking about purchasing a new battery and trying to do the Big 3. What would be a good battery to buy to help with this problem? I would appreciate any help.
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It made me understand better when I actually listened to the 1khz tracks at a low volume to understand that the -5db is a louder tone then the -10db. so is if you tune with the -5 track, the gain will be lower then if you tune with the other tracks. I set both my sub amp and mids/highs amp with the -5 track. Was told if you listen to some decaf, its better
How does it sound with the -5 track? I was thinking about going with -10 for my highs/mids/subs unless someone recommends other wise.. I want it to be loud and clear
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I didnt even think of that
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I was reading the manual before I tried to tune my sound tomorrow and seen that it says if I test with track 4 it will be maximum sound quality and if I do track 6 it would be a louder system. I was wondering how would a 1kHz -10db track be louder than a 1kHz -5db track?
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I just received my dd-1.. Very fast shipping! I cant wait to tune my amps and see what it can do.. Thanks alot steve!
I think I have a problem with my DD-1
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Yea I mean I tested it on my other amps an it set everything with no problem. I appreciate all the help from you and everyone on here.