![]() Notably, and IMO strangely, the audiograms we make for our hearing profiles show positive dB for more hearing loss. On a boost graph like in the software you pictured, they may be showing the gain of the amplifier on the curves. But the convention on volume controls is to put 0dB at the maximum and have all the numbers be in negative dB. Where the amplification was neutral the label would be 0dB in that case, and when it became lower level than the input it would have negative dB numbers on the label. Your volume control could be labeled 6dB at the maximum and go down from there. Say your amplifier doubled the sound level (voltage level). Of course, you can express the gain of your amplifier as so many dB and label the top end of the volume control at that number of dB. The labels on the potentiometers start at 0dB at maximum and go down from there. Volume controls in analog electronics are potentiometers (variable resistors) which divide the input voltage level, so you can only go down from maximum. Whatever that gain is, it’s called 0dB on the volume control. ![]() Typically, amplifier systems have a certain gain going straight through without any volume control on the input. ![]() The gain toggles in the middle probably hit zero as their top end and go negative from there as you toggle them down. In the output level chart, the smaller (positive) dB numbers are at the bottom and the larger (positive) dB numbers are a the top. A larger minus dB number (in an amplifier) is a lower sound level.
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