Frequencies start from 0hz to most 22,000khz and as you know is a sound spectrum. Db actually has nothing to do with frequency it is the measurement of intensity. The 0 db in cool edit is the optimum playback anything to the negative side is audiable clear sound anything to the plus side is clipped audio. The freq analizer is measuring the weighted value of the frequency and the decibles at its highest level. So with this you can copy to the clipboard and paste it to notepad. Now you have every frequency in that sample and I mean every. Determining one frequency to work with may be a challange. You can however use this as a guideline for editing eliminating a certain frequency because this gives you all the info for this except for the response time. You can build a notch filter that will target the exact frequency and you have the db for attenuating it. I know you were asking for how to understand this but as I said frequency and Decibles have actually nothing in common with each other. One is the actual sound the other just how loud it is. If you want to know how to figure it out you will need a scientific calculator or sliderule or enough paper to clear a small forest lol. The reason why you have the -1db in cool edit and nothing even close to that in your anaylizer is because of the combination of frequencies and the power of 10 if you follow the link you will understand.
Inquireing minds want to know.
http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/9d.html
Freq Left Right
0 -268.077270508 -268.077270508
43.066 -22.991136551 -22.875286102
86.132 -20.070955276 -20.257614136
129.199 -24.045455933 -24.682899475
172.265 -35.073734283 -34.7787323
215.332 -40.922634125 -34.465461731
258.398 -37.342300415 -27.494346619
301.464 -32.022987366 -24.115781784
344.531 -33.436779022 -26.757894516
387.597 -43.925811768 -37.659957886
430.664 -52.456302643 -48.946269989
473.73 -55.112674713 -43.515182495
516.796 -51.680419922 -38.807178497
559.863 -40.553882599 -33.006919861
602.929 -38.354717255 -31.196950912
645.996 -40.68157959 -34.78037262
689.062 -43.448554993 -41.083786011
732.128 -49.222824097 -37.950752258
775.195 -51.055431366 -37.601108551
818.261 -43.573326111 -41.616401672
861.328 -43.300567627 -38.982269287
904.394 -42.705387115 -35.31445694
947.46 -39.934505463 -31.59457016
990.527 -38.798202515 -30.93919754
1033.593 -39.545757294 -33.7955513
1076.66 -38.691772461 -38.805324554
1119.726 -35.783229828 -42.832691193
1162.792 -34.693592071 -45.369277954
1205.859 -37.672012329 -53.030570984
1248.925 -42.333393097 -42.171226501
1291.992 -37.398323059 -37.97858429
1335.058 -35.113357544 -41.633983612
1378.125 -37.04750061 -44.85068512
1421.191 -45.761421204 -49.276870728
1464.257 -46.420928955 -34.72971344
1507.324 -37.688270569 -28.905744553
1550.39 -36.280822754 -28.494235992
