XonDubs
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- September 5, 2003
- Messages
- 324
- Reaction score
- 1
- City, State
- wisconsin
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 97 5.0 AWD Limited
not sure if this is posted yet or not but ill post it up incase you guys need help. remember your gain setting is to match the power of the head unit.the gain is NOT a bass volume.
items needed:
1.digital volt meter
2.cd with a 50hz test tone(or if this is for components 1khz)both must be recorded in 0db reference level in the frequency range.
3.beer
---
the formula for this that i am going to use is watts X impedence= sq rt.
disconnect your subroofers(or components) set all your bass and treble at flat.turn your gains all the way down. pop in your cd with your test tone. pop open your beer and take a swig. now connect the digital volt meter your amp, +to + and - to -.
make sure the volt meter is set on AC VOLTS, and everything is connected correctly.now find out the wattage on your amp, for example if your amp is a 1000 watt amp youll take 1000 and multiply it by the impedence of the speakers. so take 1000 X 4 and that will be 4000, then you find the square root of that. which in this case would be 63.25 volts, so there you go. if its a 2 channel amp then you take and divide that by 2. so we will need to see 31.6 volts per channel. so now you turn up your cd player to the absolute loudest you will be listening to it(up to 3/4 of the way up MAX)
now adjust your gain until you see the amount of voltage you came up with before, in our case it was 31.6 volts. now take out the digital volt meter and put it on the other channel and repeat what you just did. now hook your subwoofers or speakers back up and back the gain down a smudge so you have some room to mess with it. now slam your beer and your done, congradulations. if you got this far you have done something most audio install places dont know how to do. pat yourself on the back.
items needed:
1.digital volt meter
2.cd with a 50hz test tone(or if this is for components 1khz)both must be recorded in 0db reference level in the frequency range.
3.beer
---
the formula for this that i am going to use is watts X impedence= sq rt.
disconnect your subroofers(or components) set all your bass and treble at flat.turn your gains all the way down. pop in your cd with your test tone. pop open your beer and take a swig. now connect the digital volt meter your amp, +to + and - to -.
make sure the volt meter is set on AC VOLTS, and everything is connected correctly.now find out the wattage on your amp, for example if your amp is a 1000 watt amp youll take 1000 and multiply it by the impedence of the speakers. so take 1000 X 4 and that will be 4000, then you find the square root of that. which in this case would be 63.25 volts, so there you go. if its a 2 channel amp then you take and divide that by 2. so we will need to see 31.6 volts per channel. so now you turn up your cd player to the absolute loudest you will be listening to it(up to 3/4 of the way up MAX)
now adjust your gain until you see the amount of voltage you came up with before, in our case it was 31.6 volts. now take out the digital volt meter and put it on the other channel and repeat what you just did. now hook your subwoofers or speakers back up and back the gain down a smudge so you have some room to mess with it. now slam your beer and your done, congradulations. if you got this far you have done something most audio install places dont know how to do. pat yourself on the back.