What is a decibel: sound pressure level (dB SPL) and other types of dB - Ep. 02

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What actually are decibels and how do we interpret them? How do we perceive pressure? What are dB SPL and dBFS? If you're not familiarized with any concept used in this video, watch my previous video (link further below) where I explain concepts from a beginner level.

0:00 Intro
0:21 Usefulness and purpose of decibels
0:59 Logarithms
1:53 Decibels for amplitude and power
2:42 Reference of decibels
3:08 Decibels SPL (sound pressure level)
3:35 Minimum audible pressure and "micro" prefix
4:07 SPL scale vs. pressure scale
4:28 Sound levels, hearing damage, and pain threshold
5:33 Sensitivity curve of the human ear
6:41 Linear scale vs. logarithmic scale
7:14 Logarithmic perception of pressure
9:27 Decibels Volt
10:03 Digital amplitudes
10:34 Decibels full-scale
11:13 Clipping
11:44 Decibels in audio and video software
12:37 Decibels in amplification context
13:33 Linear multiplications vs. sums of decibels
15:08 Doubling of power vs. amplitude
16:00 Logarithmic axes
17:47 Outro
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wow well put together and supe helpful!

princessceballos
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I have a mems microphone with16 bits digital output and -26 dbFS of sensibility.
I need to make a db meter.
How convert this digital output to spl db ?
Thank you for your video

profesormundial
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I've got several references to a threshold of pain (130 dB SPL) equating to 2.9 psi. However, when I convert 2.9 psi to Pa and get 19994 and I plug that in to the I(dB) equation 20*log10(19994/.0000203) where 20.3uPa is the reference threshold for hearing, I get 180 db. 63.24 Pa is 130 dB SPL, but that 63.24 Pa is 0.009172992 psi which is way off the 2.9 psi. What's going on?

Matthew