# Does the gain affect performance in any noticeable way?

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/does-the-gain-affect-performance-in-any-noticeable-way/22789>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [April 11, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/does-the-gain-affect-performance-in-any-noticeable-way/22789 "2025-04-11T10:20:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![deHaan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/dehaan/32/68_2.png) [@deHaan](https://qa.fmod.com/u/deHaan)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/does-the-gain-affect-performance-in-any-noticeable-way/22789/1 "2025-04-11T10:20:16Z")

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We have a default event for all the ambient emitters in our game. It has a gain effect on the master track, with automation, making it easy for us to set it from Unity, if we want some instances to be quieter. Should we worry about performance cost of having a gain effect on all our emitters, or does a simple “effect” like that not cost anything worth thinking about?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![li\_fmod](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/li_fmod/32/6577_2.png) [@li\_fmod](https://qa.fmod.com/u/li_fmod)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/does-the-gain-affect-performance-in-any-noticeable-way/22789/2 "2025-04-14T00:26:56Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for the information.

> [@deHaan](#):
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> Should we worry about performance cost of having a gain effect on all our emitters, or does a simple “effect” like that not cost anything worth thinking about?

In terms of performance, using a gain effect has a negligible impact. In fact, you could put a gain effect on every track of every event in your project and still barely notice any performance overhead.

That said, if you do run into any issues with performance, you could connect to your project [via Live Update](https://www.fmod.com/docs/2.02/studio/editing-during-live-update.html) and use the [Profiler](https://www.fmod.com/docs/2.02/studio/profiling.html) to record gameplay and identify whether/where there are any issues.