4/30/2023 0 Comments Octave one the collective rar file![]() ![]() Now let’s apply this knowledge to a WAV file you might receive back from a mastering engineer. I’m not going to get into all the gruesome details here, I’m just going to set forth one basic, but extremely important concept: there is more than one kind of decibel.ĭecibels in the digital realm are called dBFS or “Decibels Full Scale.” Decibels in the real world (the kind used to measure a jet engine) are called dB SPL or “Sound Pressure Level.” ![]() Why then, I wondered, do digital and analog meters go from negative infinity (silence) to 0 dB (absolute loudest)? And why is it that track faders can go up to +6 or +12 dB? I had read that a jet engine was 140 dB, a library was 30 dB, a rock concert was 115 dB, etc. When I started out, the decibel confused me. That’s part of why the best audio engineers are not always the best teachers. When you do something for the better part of your life, you sometimes forget how much you really know. (Updated 2/4/12) Despite a formal education and real world training at some serious recording studios, I’ve always been amazed at how far along I had to come as an engineer just to learn some very basic information and points of confusion (a big reason for starting this blog by the way). ![]()
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