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Im not worried about getting exactly "x amount of watts". I'm curious as to whether i'm sending a clipped signal to my BTL. It sounds good to my ear, but my ear doesn't necessarily know what a clipped signal sounds like. overall it seems as if i don't know enough information. Lets say i bought an oscope, how would i know what level my music is recorded at? Do i use music to set my oscope or sin waves?

To M5, I suppose I don't know enough about setting gains with the o-scope to answer that question (looks like you already knew that though! ha). I thought it was done very similar to the thread here about how to do it via DMM and bass tone. It was probably a dumb idea to assume that's how you do it.. but regardless, i used the tones provided by Shizzzon in his signature when i set my gain. If i use an o-scope, how would i set my gain?

Yes i am Julian. I'm a first year student. How the education works here at Michigan tech is that pretty much all engineering students have the same classes for the first two years. So for my first two years i don't have access to any major specific equipment. I only have access to the equipment in the Fundamentals engineering building. Equipment more complex and major specific (o-scopes, FPGA's, laser's, ect) i won't have access to for another year and a half! Regardless, at my early education, i don't have the ability to check out any equipment. So even if i could use the equipment, i would have to bring my truck do the 6th floor of my Electrical Energy Resource building....

watts 09- Then i'm at a loss. I thought that the general "rule" was that if you didn't trust your ears or didn't know what damaging sounds sounded like, use an o-scope. And another question: Does anybody know what the o-scope in that link can't do? (why is it so cheap?)

Oh my, thanks for clarifying that m5! I absolutely did read that wrong. I would still like to buy one because I find my peers asking me to help them with their bass amps frequently and i feel comfortable setting my own settings by ear but with other peoples cars i would like to use an O-scope just in case i mess up. I would like to have very little liability. So, if i find one on ebay like... ebay, o-scope would that be able to accurately set gains? If so, why and if so, why not? Thanks =]

Thanks 95 honda, that's what i was looking for. I'll probably just buy a cheapy now to probably set my gains and then when i do realize i need something more complex, i'll buy another one. Won't be for a couple years anyways! thanks!

Do you mind sharing with us what exactly the level is set to? And the other settings as i asked before please? And the head-unit settings? Maybe if you respond to people other than the "douche bags" we can get off the ugly tone of this thread

Yeah they came up on the google serach. But they also make $40,000 o-scopes, and i can find some of there products on ebay for around $100 new, and everything inbetween. So I suppose I'm asking for someone to narrow it down for me. Like obviously there are some features on the high-end products that don't apply to me or anyone really that isn't studying signal processing

what are your settings on the amp? (i mean every knob) What head unit are you running and what are the settings on that? Hopefully we can figure this out

Welcome man! Whats the story on your Screenname? I like

What year MTU student are you? i also am a MTU student!! And i have a BTL! I posted a thread about fellow MTU students but i didn't get any responses My name is Jake Bell and i'm a first year EE major living in DHH

if it was me, 4 sundown Saz-3500d. You can basically buy whatever you want for that much money... what vehicle do you have in which you can do a box big enough for 4 eighteens and not a wall?

Daiily or comp set up?

I use a table-top vice like Julian suggested and then put solder over every place the wire touches the terminal. Then cover with shrink tubing of course. Works flawlessly and really not that hard at all. If you have a vice, and aren't prone to having seizure while using a vice, i wouldn't buy the hydraulic crimper unless you're anxious to spend money or you have other uses for it. I must have crimped over fifteen 0 gauge terminals using the vice and it works fine and doesn't take too long. It's extremely easy too.

Yeah 50ft of 0 gauge is a good estimate i would say

Woah. nevermind. He changed his whole store set-up alot. Evidently he doesn't sell on ebay anymore? His Iraggi site doesn't seem to be working for me... Sorry that i couldn't help man. Good luck.

I never e-mailed him. I found his products on his Ebay store. As far as i know, it's the only place online to get one. I'm not too sure about which alternator you should use. I bought mine because it fit my budget and i knew it would supply enough power. With as many batteries as you should have for 2 BTLS, i honestly don't know. Someone else more informed could answer that. My GUESS is that a 260 amp alt could handle it, but a 320 would put less stress on it. You should be having at least two extra batt's in the back for those two saz's.

Well, are you competing? For daily a 2500-d on each is plenty of power assuming you've followed reccomended enclosure size. If you plan on building his set-up for comps, then by all means

That's awesome man! I wish i kept some of the stuff i made in highschool... (just last year). Keep up the good work bro!

If you don't mind me asking, where in metro detroit are you from? 'Tis a big place

Nice to see another writer on the the forum! Personally, the song wasn't complex enough for me to be a song that long. The complexity of each part was great, but there just wasn't enough different parts. It sounds like pretty much a verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, ect song. The song just doesn't vary enough for me to keep interested for that long. At halfway i was begging for a break but it was just more chorus and more verse! But the stuff you have is good, i like it, but i think in order for the song to be complete, it needs more. What's your experience with music? What software are you using? I would have liked a more interesting bass-line but that's just me. I think what you have here is a great IDEA for a song. A great start to develop a full length song. overall i did enjoy the song, untill around the 2:00 minute marking.

Father had the new SHO for 8 months as a lease. Quite personally, it's just too heavy for me. But there are pluses. the 365 horse power and the all wheel drive mainly. I also found the interior really nice and comfortable. It didn't feel too cheap or anything of the sort. It's not as sporty as some cars out there but I wouldn't rule it out. Any limit to the amount of doors/usable seats?

Don't know if you were aware, but the Trololol video used to be a real song with real words but the country of origin of the singer decided that the content wasn't appropriate so the government made him change it so he still made the song with just jibberish. You can watch the interview on youtube as well which explains it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKDKAKNH-k

because we are all very bad at visualizing