eli5 what does “gain” mean in regards to audio and recording?

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Basically just looking into external mics for my phone and all the reviews for the different products I’m looking at are talking about “too much gain” and “not enough gain” and I have no earthly idea what that means. I tried looking it up, but it’s confusing as hell for someone with no know, who just wants to record concerts to listen to again later

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“Gain” in this context means amplification of the output of the system. It’s usually expressed in decibels, which is a logarithmically scaled ratio of the output to the input.

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