Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
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"DiY" - Do-it-yourself (music)<br />
"indie" - Independent, meaning not released on a major record label.<br />
Q0.6 What are decibels? When are they used instead of volts?<br />
From a Webster's online dictionary:<br />
deci-bel \'des-e-,bel, -bel\ n<br />
[ISV deci- + bel]<br />
(1928)<br />
1a: a unit for expressing the ratio of two amounts of electric or acoustic<br />
signal power equal to 10 times the common logarithm of this<br />
ratio<br />
1b: a unit for expressing the ratio of the magnitudes of two electric<br />
voltages or currents or analogous acoustic quantities equal to<br />
20 times the common logarithm of the voltage or current ratio<br />
2: a unit for expressing the relative intensity of sounds on a scale<br />
from zero for the average least perceptible sound to about 130 for<br />
the average pain level<br />
3: de<strong>gr</strong>ee of loudness; also: extremely loud sound -- usu. used in<br />
pl.<br />
From the DAT-heads microphone FAQ:<br />
"Noise is typically referred to in microphones in terms of equivalent<br />
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