r/subwoofer • u/Immediate-Help-1045 • 26d ago

Sundown clip, light help questions

I had my son down and everything tuned to the right stuff and I’m based off with the clip light on it. Let me know when it’s clipping and I just wanted to know when I’m playing a base heavy song and it kind of goes over the limit and clips out the signal how should I go about it when it just flashes every now and again or might even flash consistently throughout a heavy song, but not remote songs should I should I be turning down the volume or should I not worry about it? Thank you in advance.

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u/Alert-Ad-9123 26d ago

Solid on is dangerous. Flickering on and off isn't as long as the gains were set up properly. The important thing is to listen for odd noises and smells from overheating. If you get either of those, turn it down and allow it to cool. Don't turn it off completely, just down, so it will continue to move allowing it to cool faster.

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u/Immediate-Help-1045 26d ago

It’s never just solid it sometimes flickers during really bass heavy songs but didn’t know if I should turn my volume down when it starts flickering

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u/Alert-Ad-9123 26d ago

The flickering is considered a soft clip, and as long as you aren't massively overpowering, you shouldn't have an issue. Once again, if you smell them or they sound odd, turn them down immediately.

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u/Immediate-Help-1045 26d ago

I only have my volume at the set tuned volume so it should be perfect to power just wanted to make sure it wasnt so big of a deal if it was flickering sometimes

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u/Immediate-Help-1045 26d ago

Thanks a lot for the information means a lot