[olug] Volume Control
Brandon Lederer
blederer at cashflowbilling.com
Tue Sep 2 14:23:49 UTC 2003
Opps I meant 83 and 86.... Fat finger there. But that doesnt get me
any closer to the answer.
My car can do a 140 dB.... not that anyone cares! and Ive withnessed a
few cars do a 165+ dB
Eric Penne wrote:
>88dB is 4 times 83dB.
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>>One of my largest complaints about linux, still, is the volume control.
>>The volume control is a Linear volume control. People do not hear
>>Linearly, we hear logrithmically. For instance, 88 DB is twice as loud
>>as 83 DB... it grows really fast, getting loud quickly. Therfore the
>>Linear gain makes nothing make any sound for the first 3/4s of the
>>volume control. The last 1/4 is so touchy you cant get the volume you
>>want. What is needed is a Reverse logrithmic volume control. To give
>>the first 1/4 of the volume control very coarse linear granularity and
>>the last 3/4 of the volume control fine granularity. This is obviously
>>how it is done most other places, because you appear to be turning up
>>the volume linearly, but you are actually turning up the volume reverse
>>logrithm (or something close).
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>>Does anyone know of a way to make the volume control better? This is
>>highly annoying.
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