what’s the difference between gain and volume?

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I recently got a mixer for work stuff but honestly I don’t really know how to use it, HELP

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It’s hard to articulate without a visual. Gain is how loud an engineer makes the sound, volume is how loud the listener makes it.

Let’s say that the volume of any sound project ranges from 1 to 100. You can’t get louder than 100. If the engineers set the gain to 25, it would be barely audible. If they set it to 99, it would sound super distorted and unlistenable. If a listener heard a project set to 25, they could turn up their volume and still hear it fine. However, if a listener hears something set to 99, it will sound like ass and they won’t be able to hear it clearly no matter what they set their volume to. Hope that makes sense!

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