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Gain Stage: Any stage or point in an audio/video signal path where the gain or level of the signal can be adjusted or amplified. Basically this means any piece of equipment the signal passes through can be considered at least one gain stage (if not many stages). Any place your signal encounters a level control is a gain stage. That means the "input" AND "output" level controls of something are both gain stages. It is desirable to have gain stages matched throughout the path of a signal. Boosting a signal way up at one point while turning it way back down at the next point is generally not preferred as it can reduce the overall dynamic range and signal to noise level available.

G-Cadillac Tailpiece	Gain	Gain/Fader Riding
Gain Before Feedback	Gain Reduction	Gain Stage
Gain Structure	Gap	Gate
Gauge	Gauss	GB
General MIDI Lite	Generational Loss	Genlock
German Carve	Gesture	GFI
GHz, Gigahertz	Gig	Gigabit
Gigaflop	GigaFLOPS	Glass Armonica
Glass Master	Glide	Glissando
Global	General MIDI (GM)	GM2
GM Reset	GNU	GoBo
Golden Ratio	Golpeador	Gooseneck
GOP	GPI	Grace Note
Grain	Grand Rights	Granular Synthesis
Graphic Equalizer	Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)	Graphite
Graticule	Green Book	Gretsch Ronnie Lee Model
Grid	Grid Mode	Ground
Ground Bass	Ground Lift	Ground Loop
Ground Wound	Group	Group Delay
GSIF	Guard Band	GUI
Guitar	Guitar Organ	Guitarron