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Cheapest way to ACCURATELY set gains?


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DDM or set it up ear. No it won't be perfect. No it won't be accurate.

That's the risk, but just be smart and you shouldn't hurt anything.

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Find someone near you with a DD1 and go visit them to have it done or go to a shop with an OScope and have them tune it for you.

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Find someone near you with a DD1 and go visit them to have it done or go to a shop with an OScope and have them tune it for you.

I looked at that map a while back that shows people near me with that stuff and I think the closest was a few hours away

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Find someone near you with a DD1 and go visit them to have it done or go to a shop with an OScope and have them tune it for you.

I looked at that map a while back that shows people near me with that stuff and I think the closest was a few hours away

Then I would look up every reputable shop in your area and find out who has the OScope then go and have it tuned properly. The by ear method does work (for some) but I would not recommend it to anyone who doesn't know what they are doing because it could cost you a lot of money in blown equipment.

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A nano scope is like $70 on amazon. If that's out of your budget car audio might not be the hobby for you

I saw some of those but I didn't know if they'd work well or if they were just a china piece of junk.

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Look up your amp to see if it actually does rated. See if someone bench tested it and posted results or look at your or someone elses birth sheet if they are availible for that amp. Once you have an idea what kind of wattage your amp should be putting out use the DMM method but subtract like 5-10% wattage just to be safe.

This is probably as accurate/safe as you can be while being a cheapass. You will probably be able to get a bit more out of the amp with dd1/oscope this way, but not much and its a neccesary sacrifice so you don't blow anything up.

You can set gains with a VERY basic oscope. Even a super old one from the 80s or something. Audio stuff is a very basic thing for an oscope. The really expensive ones you see are probably ike 350mhz+ models. You don't even need 1mhz for audio.

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