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It makes perfect sense that the sliders start at 0dB and go down to -inf. Maybe you don't understand it, but it definitely makes sense. Everyone who uses dB has
by nyeah 1y ago
It makes perfect sense that the sliders start at 0dB and go down to -inf. Maybe you don't understand it, but it definitely makes sense. Everyone who uses dB has also tried a % scale with 100% as 0dB, and then later made a conscious choice to figure out how dB work.
Maybe they're all in a conspiracy to make things needlessly complex. But that's not the only possibility.
- viraptor 1y ago> and then later made a conscious choice to figure out how dB work. You're just projecting your ideas here. I've not made that choice, it's just the only option in a lot of software - I'd like my % slider back.
- nyeah 1y agoRight. Decibels are my idea.
- viraptor 1y agoProjecting in that context means you claimed what other people think/do, because it's what you think/do. It's about describing the conscious choices of others (where my experience disagrees for example) not about decibels specifically.
- nyeah 1y agoAgreed, you are using the word "projecting" fine. But you're ignoring the actual behavior of people using dB in the real world.
- formerly_proven 1y agoWindows has 0-100 volume sliders if you like that better. They are still some kind of faux-logarithmic* *behavior depends on drivers/hardware.** **for some hardware 50 in Windows will be neutral and 100 will be something like a +30 dB digital gain, that's probably in part because Windows is mapping the 0-100 range in some way to the USB audio control range, which is at most +-127 dB or something like that.*** ***with some audio interfaces (the non-USB-Audio-class kind) the 0-100 actually becomes a linear factor of 0-1, making the windows controls very useless indeed, as 70% of the slider range does approximately nothing.
- seba_dos1 1y ago% slider sounds like a good idea until you actually have to use it.