I think our ear responds logarithmically, so using the dB scale on the empeg actually corresponds to quite a nice linear scale in terms of loudness.

May be our ears do, but our often brains decide differently . . .
Some high-end audio stuff adjust the sensitivity of volume adjustments to how loud the set is playing such that the smallest increments that you can make to the volume, sound equally spaced.

The smallest steps with which you can adjust the gain of a Mark Levinson 380S pre-amp, for example, is 0.1 dB but only between 38.8 and 92.0 dB on the display. Below 38.3 the steps increase, with the largest being a full 6dB (from 7.0 to 1.0)

This works very nice (at least up to 65 dB; anything above that I have never tried) and I'd wish empeg would build something like this into the player.


Henno
mk2 6 nr 6

PS: the steps are:
0.0 1.0 7.0 10.5 13.0 15.0 16.5 17.8 19.0 20.0
20.9 21.7 22.5 23.2 23.8 24.4 25.0 25.5 26.0 26.5
26.9 27.4 27.7 28.1 28.5 28.8 29.2 29.5 29.8 30.1
30.4 30.7 31.0 31.3 31.5 31.8 32.0 32.2 32.5 32.7
32.9 33.1 33.3 33.5 33.8 34.0
from here 0.2 dB until 38.8; 0.1 increments between 38.8 and 92.0 dB