dB meter, help please

[Symon_say 10+ year member]

Hi

First a little intro, i live in Dominican Republic an in my country like in many latinamerican country love the ghetto install, so we have to kinds of installation the proper installation (not to proper in most of the cases) that consist of car speakers and sub, that we call interior installation, the other kind of installation is a super ghetto install in where more means the best, people use pro audio equipment like Ev, peavy, beyma, RCF and that kind of speakers to install a super loud system with we call exterior music.

The question comes here, in the music competition for the interior install they use a cheap radioshack dB meter cause no body have go over 132dB (lol i know), but for the exterior kind they dont know what meter use, so if some could help me to find some good dB meter that can work in this conditions, in the open air, not in a close car will make me a good favor.

I know some of the organizers of the event so i'm trying to make things work, and do the things right, but is a little hard and take time.

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[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

Look up a program for your laptop if you have one called Term Lab also here called the TL

 

[Symon_say 10+ year member]

This is what i'm talking, how can i measure this?

 

[Symon_say 10+ year member]

Thanks, i know termlab but i want to know if there is anything made to work on this conditions, or termlab is ok for that??

 

[Beginer 10+ year member]

As I know it's very hard to meter in open air because if there be strong wind so results won't be correct.

 

[JeremiahCoffel 10+ year member]

Measuring this would be VERY hard, but I'm sure it can be done, not easily, but it can be. You could probably use a TL on the vehicles, in a building of some sort. Make sure it's a sound proof building, and it's quiet while measuring? What do they use to measure how loud an Airplane is? Look on google for that.

 

[Symon_say 10+ year member]

Thanks, i'll try to convence then that get the termlab