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would be a good way to keep everything in your car new and up to date!

to answer your question, probably. The gain just matches the input of the amp to the output of the deck. If you have 2 volts of output from your head unit, lets say, and your gain on your amp goes from 2 volts to .2 volts, you'd want to turn your gain all the way down to minimize clipping, maximize headroom, etc. There's a more technical but accurate way to set it using a dmm, I think someone did a thread on it the other day, but to keep things simple on yourself, look at what your head unit advertises as output voltage and adjust your gain to match that.

Here, check this out.

http://mobile.jlaudio.com/support_pages.php?page_id=143

what exactly is clipping?

well, as many problems as we were having with people driving away and cranking their gains then coming back with blown speakers, it was easier on us.

http://www.bcae1.com/speakrat.htm-Clipping
http://www.bcae1.com/2ltlpwr.htm-Clipping


http://www.bcae1.com/gaincon2.htm-Gains

There you guys go, from one of my favorite sites.

those links didn't work

?? Try again, they work for me...

Yup they worked. The BCAE one is pretty good.

After you guys explained, I got a general idea. I didn't have time to sit down adn read it because I haev school in a few minutes, but I will if I have time tonight.

Thanks Lotas, that helped a lot.

I got them to work the second time around. I was getting the 404 error. Internet over here isn't much better than dial-up. Good links. They explain things much better than I do.

They explain things much better than I do.

I think we can find a lot of things that explain better than you do....but we wont get into detail... :)