Are attenuators linear or logarithmic?


If you have an attenuator that scales in .5 db increments from -72db to -0db is it linear or logarithic?

Is -36db half the attenuation as -0db? At -36db on the scale are you killing half the power available? On a single frequency test tone would -36db on the scale be half the SPL of -0db?

Can't be that simple.

Jim S.
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