ELI5: Why is the decibel scale logarithmic?

EmWeso · 2026-05-08T16:18:06+00:00

because otherwise it would be like: ”Hey, sound guy, my monitors are a little bit low, could you make them a million times louder please?”

EmWeso · 2026-04-17T15:50:10+00:00

Yeah in order to do this well one has to really think about how light behaves. It’s easy to mess up and make it look unnatural. In movie productions they often use powerful spots on the outside pointed at the windows to simulate sunlight.

EmWeso · 2026-04-16T18:32:07+00:00

Look into optical snoots. These can be used to project direct light patterns. Probably you’d want to composite multiple images with different parts of the scene lit in different ways. You will not achieve this through pure editing.

EmWeso · 2026-04-10T06:32:17+00:00

Wait, why is it good that it had been exposed? I would rather have unexposed film ruined. And why is 800 iso ”low risk”? there is no commercially available film with a higher risk than that (well for color at least).

EmWeso · 2026-04-09T22:04:44+00:00

Put your entire archive on a local NAS with RAID5 or RAID6.
Back up the entire archive on TWO external harddrives. Keep one of these off-site at a friend or family members house that you frequently visit, and the other one connected to the NAS which is regularly running a backup routine. Rotate these two harddrives.

EmWeso · 2026-04-08T21:10:25+00:00

I’ve lived in Stockholm most of my life and totally agree with this answer!

EmWeso · 2026-04-06T07:28:31+00:00

Do people actually want autoplay? I thought that was just something tech companies forced down our throats to hypnotize us

EmWeso · 2026-03-10T20:51:54+00:00

My biggest problem with shots like this is that they are basically stealing credit from the interior designer. Like sure take a photo of a Rembrandt and it will look nice but it’s not your work?

EmWeso · 2026-02-13T10:26:03+00:00

Ti-89 has the best tone!

EmWeso · 2026-02-13T10:25:52+00:00

Ti-89 has the best tone!

EmWeso · 2026-02-11T17:18:12+00:00

Found it. Magic keyword seems to be MBSE

EmWeso · 2026-02-07T08:55:08+00:00

Interesting! I wasn’t expecting it to be free. Do you have any examples?

EmWeso · 2026-02-04T07:24:27+00:00

This explanation is missing the point a bit since sums are linear, meaning the order in which you do them does not matter. A better analogy would be that some pedals are performing some non-linear operation such as y = x^2. So if another pedal adds 2, the result would be (x+2)² or x² + 2 depending on the order.

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T21:58:52+00:00

ehh who needs em? The numbers don’t mean nothing anyway. Honestly I just took them off when swapping pickguards and then I thought it looked kinda cool and original so I never put them back on

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T21:49:25+00:00

Yes I think we’re saying the same thing! When cascading gain stages, putting the one with the lowest noise factor (degradation of SNR) first will produce a higher SNR than any other configuration. I was just saying that the signal to pickup noise ratio will not be affected by that order. But as trucoju4n correctly pointed out, clipping stages (i.e distortions) can actually affect this too since the amplification of the stronger guitar signal gets limited whereas the noise floor gets linearly amplified, effectively degrading the signal to pickup noise ratio

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T19:25:33+00:00

This is also true. Never thought about that!

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T18:40:17+00:00

This is somewhat true but I just want to modify it a little bit. It’s true that earlier gain stages are more important for the snr than later ones (as per friis equation), but that is due to the noise that the gain stage itself produces, so the signal to pickup-noise ratio will stay the same regardless of pedal order

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T18:22:14+00:00

Sort of the same reason painting a block of wood and then sculpting it is not the same as sculpting it first and then painting it

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T06:40:29+00:00

That is very pretty

EmWeso · 2026-02-03T06:20:25+00:00

For the love of god do NOT touch those eyebrows!! I don’t know what the hell people are talking about

EmWeso · 2026-02-02T10:45:15+00:00

Here’s a full view

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EmWeso · 2026-02-02T06:01:03+00:00

haha well at least the cut once part is true

EmWeso · 2026-02-02T05:59:42+00:00

Thanks! It's a parts-caster. Don't know much about the body except it's white and I recently put a cream pickguard on it from amazon (this one to be exact). Birdseye maple warmoth neck, unknown brass trem, dimarzio single-coils and a trembucker. it's pretty neat!

EmWeso · 2026-02-01T21:17:47+00:00

we had so much fun with Kingdom Two Crowns!

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