Audacity Forum

The poster (me) is a teacher teaching a course to nonscience college students in a Physics of Music course. We demonstrate in class what the spectrum of different instruments looks like, and the important features should be easily identifiable to students who don't understand logs or db scales. Why ...

Is there a way to display vertical axis on the Spectrum on a linear scale, rather than the log scale (dB) it normally uses? (I refer to to the Power spectrum - loudness versus frequency from the Analyze tool bar - not the "sonogram" display of frequency vs time.) The reason is to deemphasize the dat...