micsens: Microphone sensitivity and conversion

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Microphone sensitivity and conversion

Description

This function converts microphone sensitivity from mV/Pa to dB.

Usage

micsens(x, sref = 1, inverse = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a measured sensitivity in mV/Pa (or in dB if inverse is TRUE)
sref	the sensitivity reference (by default equals to 1 V/Pa)
inverse	logical, if TRUE, the inverse conversion from dB to mV/Pa is computed.

Details

The sensitivity S in dB is calculated according to:

S_{dB} = 20 \times log_{10}(\frac{s}{s_{ref}})

with s the measured sensitivity in mv/Pa and sref the reference sensitivity (by default 1 mV/Pa).

Value

A numeric value in dB re 1V/Pa with default settings, in mV/Pa if inverse is set to FALSE.

Author(s)

Jerome Sueur [e-mail]

See Also

convSPL

Examples

# conversion of a sensitivity of 2 mV/Pa
micsens(2)
# conversion of a sensitivity of -54 dB re 1V/Pa
micsens(-54,inverse=TRUE)

seewave documentation built on Oct. 19, 2023, 5:07 p.m.