Bode plot of butter filter's transfer function has wrong Module axis scale

I am tryng to create a second order butterworth lowpass filter and to plot its transfer function on a Bode plot. The problem is that when I create the bode plot the Module axis ranges only from -85dB to -84.6dB, as in the attached screenshot. What am I doing wrong?

Here is the code:

% define sampling frequency
Fc = 250000; % [Hz]
f_Nyq = Fc/2;

% define cutoff frequency
freq_to_cut = 600;
cutoff_freq = freq_to_cut/f_Nyq;

% build filter (second order
[Num,Den] = butter(2, cutoff_freq);

% build transfer function and plot
H = tf(Num, Den);
figure(1), bode(H);

Answer 1

[Suhan]

Hi,

The Bode plot is showing the correct magnitude-phase plot. However, in Bode plot, the magnitude axes is in dB. The DC gain of your system can be found by the following command: >> 20*log10(dcgain(H)) ; % where H is the transfer function

which is around -84.8 dB. Moreover, your transfer function has poles and zeros very close to each other. Hence, the variation of the magnitude over the frequency range is low.