{"id":11027,"date":"2017-04-24T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:30:03","slug":"understanding-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/understanding-gain.html","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

(contributed by Robert Giovannetti of Vannetti Bass Designs and Best Bass Gear)<\/em><\/p>\n

Gain is often misinterpreted to be synonymous with volume because they both sound like they mean the same thing, especially when referencing amplifier heads. Compound this with the fact that raising or lowering an instrument’s or amp\u2019s gain will affect its volume, and it\u2019s easy to see how the concept can be misunderstood.<\/p>\n

What is gain? The power of an incoming signal. What is volume? The power of an outgoing signal, which includes the signal’s gain. You can think of it as gain being the strength of the signal and volume as the signal’s size. <\/p>\n

Here are some illustrations to help in understanding this.<\/p>\n

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In the above example, the gain of the signal is illustrated by the thickness of the lines. Thicker = stronger signal = more gain while the volume is represented by their length. Longer = louder = more volume.<\/p>\n

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The signal is illustrated by the thin, short line above. Increasing the gain thickens the line, while boosting the volume lengthens it. The overall power (loudness) and quality of the signal is determined by the amount of both, and is why a low gain, high volume signal can sound just as loud as one with high gain, low volume; though not necessarily as “good.” I’ll discuss exactly why that is in the next article.<\/p>\n

Do you have questions about gain and how it affects your bass tone? Ask your question by posting a comment below and we’ll do our best to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(contributed by Robert Giovannetti of Vannetti Bass Designs and Best Bass Gear) Gain is often misinterpreted to be synonymous with volume because they both sound like they mean the same thing, especially when referencing amplifier heads. Compound this with the fact that raising or lowering an instrument’s or amp\u2019s gain will affect its volume, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}