On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:26:19AM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > > Alsamixer reports "dB gain 0.00, 0.00" to -60.00, -60.00 in .5 dB steps. > > Does that correspond to -120 dB somehow (both channels == 120 dB total)? > > (i'm a newb at all this) > > No it does not add up that way. Maybe alsamixer is showing wrong > numbers?! Fons may know more. I don't :-(. I assume ALSA just uses the upper half of the range, which makes sense - less than unity gain in the 24-bit domain also reduces the available range at the output, so it's not a good idea anyway. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
