Audacity Forum

Folks, thanks for all the advice. I wanted to make a tone that plays at exactly 80dB (SPL) via headphones. I've just used a Bruel & Kjaer audiometer and an "artificial ear" in order to measure the headphone output. The default tone produced by Audacity is just under 100 dB at the maximum volume, whi...

Folks, I've used Audacity to generate a 1000 Hz tone of 50 ms duration in 44100 Hz/16-bit/stereo, but I don't know how to make sure that the tone is exactly 80 db. I've changed the verticle scale from "relative (1.0 to -1.0)" to "db" and it shows 0 to -96 db for the top half of each waveform and not...