Re: [Audacity-devel] dB negative waveform (was Reassigned spectrograms)

[Alan H. <gi...@as...>]

On Wednesday 19 August 2015 12:54, Steve the Fiddle wrote:

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> On the subject of track scales, one feature (bug) that I would very
> much like to see improved if anyone can work out how to do it (Paul?),
> is for the dB ruler to extend down into the negative part of the
> waveform.

You mean in Waveform (dB)?  I think I could fairly easily argue that the 
negative part of the waveform is the bug in a dB view - dB is a measure of 
power, rms.  That's what has always seemed wrong to me.  And what is below 
-infinity?  (Probably +infinity!) :))

Regards

Alan