Both Volume and Gain are essentially "Volume".
The volume controls the overall volume. You turn the volume where ever you choose. Then you have a max limit. The big and shallow targets are loud, but only as loud as the max limit allows them to be. They hit the max ceiling.
Now if you have the gain on 1, targets that are deep and/or small will be faint, sometimes too faint. This is where gain come's in. Gain raises the volume on the targets that do not produce signals that are already hitting the max level.
Picture a ramp with a hinge at one end. The ramp is setting on the ground on one end and hooked to a truck bed on the end with the hinge. Loud large/shallow signals are at the hinge end and quiet small/deep signals are at the other end of the ramp.
Gain raises the ramp a little with each higher number. With Gain on 10 the ramp is level, sticking straight out from the hinge and all signals hit the max volume. Lower the gain to 5 and the end of the ramp is halfway back to the ground. The smallest/deepest targets will be least affected with the middle targets somewhere inbetween.
So, Gan has no effect on large or shallow targets... only on the targets that are a little or a lot deeper.
FWIW, I keep my max limit down to about 7 and I turn up the volume on my headphones in order to make my batteries last longer. I hope I am not making a mistake by doing that.
J
The volume controls the overall volume. You turn the volume where ever you choose. Then you have a max limit. The big and shallow targets are loud, but only as loud as the max limit allows them to be. They hit the max ceiling.
Now if you have the gain on 1, targets that are deep and/or small will be faint, sometimes too faint. This is where gain come's in. Gain raises the volume on the targets that do not produce signals that are already hitting the max level.
Picture a ramp with a hinge at one end. The ramp is setting on the ground on one end and hooked to a truck bed on the end with the hinge. Loud large/shallow signals are at the hinge end and quiet small/deep signals are at the other end of the ramp.
Gain raises the ramp a little with each higher number. With Gain on 10 the ramp is level, sticking straight out from the hinge and all signals hit the max volume. Lower the gain to 5 and the end of the ramp is halfway back to the ground. The smallest/deepest targets will be least affected with the middle targets somewhere inbetween.
So, Gan has no effect on large or shallow targets... only on the targets that are a little or a lot deeper.
FWIW, I keep my max limit down to about 7 and I turn up the volume on my headphones in order to make my batteries last longer. I hope I am not making a mistake by doing that.
J