Play a song, and adjust the volume on the amp untill it is as loud as you want it. That way, if you ever turn it up to 100% volume by accident, you shant be melting your speakers or your ears.

I'm aware of how to properly adjust my amp gains, thank you. In fact, I detailed the procedure in one of my entries in the FAQ.

My wish was not related to the music being too loud. Re-read my wish more closely: I'm asking for an optional 0db ceiling.

What you want to do, is turn the volume on your amp to minimum, and the empeg to maximum.

No, to adjust the Empeg properly, you should turn it to 0db during the amp-gain-setting procedure. If you turn the Empeg to maximum, you are doing it wrong.

The Empeg has the ability to push the volume a few notches past 0db. When you play a 100 percent signal on the Empeg at 0db with no loudness and a flat EQ, you have a perfect waveform that reaches the upper limit of the DSP with no clipping. But if you push the volume past 0db, and the signal reaches a 100 percent peak, then the DSP will clip the signal, introducing distortion. Note that this distortion is digital, in the Empeg's DSP itself, and has nothing to do with your amplifiers and speakers.

In reality, most music doesn't reach that 100 percent mark, and when it does, the transients are so brief as to be unnoticeable even if you've pushed the volume past 0db. That's why the Empeg allows you to deliberately overdrive the DSP in this fashion.

However, I have carefully tuned my amplifiers and EQ based around a 0db ceiling, and I was wishing for the option to lock the empeg's ceiling at 0db for this reason.

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Tony Fabris