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Two .380ACP or .38 Special Round Nose Lead, one in each ear...
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The custom fit ear molds are worth the price if you are going to use them a lot. You can also get 9, 15, and 25db filters and change them to fit your needs.
They are shaped to your individual ear canal and once in are very comfortable. And they actually work better than the 'one size fits all' variety. IMHO well worth the money.
You can contact Westone and get a list of approved audiologists.
The Radio Shack SPL meter works fine. We've compared it to the Police Department's expensive meter and they were within a db or two of each other.
My 'disturbing the peace story' comes from that opportunity to compare meters.
We were gigging at an almost outdoor lounge (large open air but a good roof over our head). The noise ordinance is 55dba at the neighbor's lot line. We measured our volume at the line, and when the people next door called the police, they always found us complying with the law.
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We were gigging at an almost outdoor lounge (large open air but a good roof over our head). The noise ordinance is 55dba at the neighbor's lot line. We measured our volume at the line, and when the people next door called the police, they always found us complying with the law.
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wow... that is really, really quiet. Normal conversation at 3' distance is louder than that averaging 60db to 65db. db CHART We played a club in a town with a noise ordnance... several actually, so we used our SPL meter often. One club had a 90 db outside the front door with the door closed. Cops walked around with meters. $50 fine per instance. Another club had an 85db limit at the bar. The first 2 warnings were free, the third and subsequent warnings were accompanied by a $25 fine by the bar. The town fines were much higher so the club put the responsibility on the bands to self enforce.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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55 at the neighbor's lot line, it was about 85 in the bar.
We do play a yacht club where we do a sound check at 65db, any louder than that will cause complaints. People want to talk while having dinner. Surprisingly, they do get up to dance, even to the rock songs that we play after dinner.
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"dB" cited without reference is useless as information. "45dB" over WHAT? Background noise? Sound is additive in nature, among other issues.
A Weighting is not the necessary reference, that refers to the use of the Fletcher-Munson EQ being applied such that the reading will show what the human ear translates the "flat" level into.
The proper way to define the level of the sound is to use SPL - Sound Pressure Level figures.
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I would normally would chime right in with Mac on a discussion about dB requiring a reference value or at minimum SPL, all of the above discussions get a 'pass' from me because they are talking about using SPL meters, which all use 20 micropascals as their reference. There's no way to actually change it on the meters themselves.
It is certainly better form to say 85 dBA SPL than just 85 dBA.
And it has migrated from dB(A) to dBA over the years. Saves some keystrokes is one way to try to look at that positively.
In all my decades of reporting out sound pressure related dB on charts, this would be my standard axis label:
dB(weighting) SPL re 20-6 Pa.
But in a general discussion about output from SPL meters, it's probably o.k. not to put so much detail since there's only 'one kind' of reference in most SPL meters available. Some two channel units can do sound intensity which has a 10-12 Watt reference, if I recall correctly. But by and large the lions share of what are sold as SPL meters use 20 micropascal sound pressure reference.
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