I recently got a mixer for work stuff but honestly I don’t really know how to use it, HELP
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This is a simple concept yet easy to confuse. We use gain in electronics, mixers and radio. Mostly in cases where you measure in dB. All this is is a ratio. What confuses people is when Power and Volume are compared. In mixing and electronics Gain is the increase in signal tone before it is processed, this can change the signals waveform. Volume adjusts the signal after is processed and does not affect the tone. Distortion in this case comes from the signal strength being amplified before the processor… Gain by itself is just the original tone in relation to its amplification. O dB would be the base point for comparison. Then doubling in Power every 3 dB. If you have a guitar, you apply gain.. the original signal before the processed could start at -15 dB by the time the signal hits the processor, due to system loss the gain would make up for that loss, however over compensation creates distortion. Volume always starts at 0dB and increases in order of magnitude. In RF Gain is merely a ratio in reference to Watts and the power of the Amplification System, it is a similar in how it is quantified but different, but thats another rabbit hole.
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