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for overall effect. You can turn them up or down and the balance will remain okay as
long as you keep the difference in dB between the two settings the same.
Controls
Unfortunately, our supplier for the usual control fascia (marked in dB) sometimes runs
out of stock. This means we sometimes ship airLayers with knobs that are not calibrated
in dB, but simply marked linearly from 1 to 10 or worse, from 0 to 11. In the following
image, you can see the correspondence between two of the types of dial plate.
Fig. 2 Dial plates
Here’s a translation table showing dB of attenuation with the linearly numbered dial plate:
Linear dB
Linear dB
1
-16 6
-3.5
2
-9
7
.2.8
3
-7
8
-1.8
4
-5.5 9
-1
5
-4.5 10
0