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- Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:43 am
- Forum: Audacity 2.x Feedback and Reviews
- Topic: dB definition in help
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Re: dB definition in help
Sorry, I should have specified I refer to the discussion below. best regards -SL http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=HowAudacityWorks#Waveform_dB HowAudacityWorks . . . Waveform dB . Q: How is the waveform dB calculated? A: See Wikipedia for full details. The basic idea is that dB is a loga...
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:22 am
- Forum: Audacity 2.x Feedback and Reviews
- Topic: dB definition in help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1714
dB definition in help
The definition of dB is incorrectly documented. In the documentation, decibels are confused with bels. A change of 10 dB is a factor of 10, a change of 20 dB is a factor of 100, etc.. It would be good to know if simply the documentation is incorrect or the application's labels of the values used as ...