Not being terribly bright, I have never understood the difference between Gain and Amplify. I always use Amplify to adjust levels, partly to ensure levels don't exceed 0 and partly because portions of a track can be adjusted. When would it be relevant to use Gain instead?
Thanks
Andrew
Gain versus Amplify
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Re: Gain versus Amplify
The benefit is in experimental or live changes - you can change gain (or pan) while playing and adjust in real time so that the playback does not clip in Meter Toolbar .
Another benefit of gain or pan is that disk space is not used until you Tracks > Mix and Render to write the changes to disk and waveform. So this keeps your project smaller.
Gale
Another benefit of gain or pan is that disk space is not used until you Tracks > Mix and Render to write the changes to disk and waveform. So this keeps your project smaller.
Gale
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Re: Gain versus Amplify
Maybe I'm not being that bright either... I don't seem to have a "Gain" effect.
I assume they are the same thing... I can say, "Amplify the signal by a gain of 6dB", or "Increase the gain by 6dB", or "I need 6dB more of amplification", or "This amplifier has a gain of 20dB"...
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OK I found it.
I assume they are the same thing... I can say, "Amplify the signal by a gain of 6dB", or "Increase the gain by 6dB", or "I need 6dB more of amplification", or "This amplifier has a gain of 20dB"...
P.S.
OK I found it.
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Re: Gain versus Amplify
I assumed we were talking about the Gain slider on the Track Control Panel: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... .html#gain .DVDdoug wrote:Maybe I'm not being that bright either... I don't seem to have a "Gain" effect.
If not, I don't know either... .
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Re: Gain versus Amplify
Thanks very much. Yes, I was thinking of the gain control in the track panel.
Andrew
Andrew