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1 hour ago, brocc said:

Can I gain match my amps using a voltmeter?

No.

 

O-scope or

DD-1 or DD-1+

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I've heard of people using little speakers and some other parts wired up to the speaker outputs of an amp for gain setting, but not sure if that would help with gain matching...

Better off buying a tool and doing it the right way the first way. 

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yes, you can. assuming both amps gains are set properly for clean output, you would measure the output voltage of both while playing a tone, and use the lower reading amp as your base, and then match the other amp to that output voltage. VAC.

CC-1 does provide gain matching capabilities along with setting crossovers. both of which can be done successfully with a volt meter and tones, but made simpler with CC-1.

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First find max clean output for head unit with dd-1. Then check each amp individually for max clean output with dd-1 and multimeter. Write down each one. Set all amps your trying to gain match to lowest amp clean output voltage. Double check  to make sure all amps have clean output  voltage  and your good to go. Just redid  my 2 dc5ks mine is 67.2. Gl 

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Hell yea you can

play a tone measure the ac output of amp 1 then set amp 2 to that same number

insuggeat disconnecting subs for this

 

no this is not how you set gains for a clean signal but will do just fine for gain matching 

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