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DESIGN UTILITIES
Signal levels
Vrms, dBu, dBV & peak voltage
One value. Every level.
LIVEEdit any field. The rest follow automatically.
Vrms
dBu
dBV
Vpp
Vp
Peak conversions assume a sine wave.
The shape of a signal
SINE WAVEOne waveform. Three ways to measure it.
Vpp = Vrms × 2√2
dBu = 20 log₁₀(Vrms / √0.6)
dBV = 20 log₁₀(Vrms / 1 V)
0 dBu = √0.6 V ≈ 0.7746 Vrms. 0 dBV = 1 Vrms. RMS-to-peak relationships depend on waveform shape.