Re: Listening Get Together
We are to the finished product stage on some of the cabs.
It's really loud around my shop. I can do it certainly. But I will have no confidence in them. What's train noise, or main street noise, 2 blocks away, or cars on Crawford right in front of the shop, a heavily traveled street. The railroad tracks are literally 50ft from the shop, on a busy day -they run every 15 minutes or so switching cars. Idling engines many times sit by the shop for 20-30 minutes.
I can certainly do a pink and a walk around testing for dispersion. But an spl or response test there will be pointless. Inside, who's going to believe them? Room artifacts, room gain, bounce. It needs to be outside 1/2 space in an open area. I am completely convinced that's required to adequately test. Once I have those as a baseline, I can do inside testing and see accurately what the room is doing to the sound. If it should turn off nice enough melt the snow and dry out the pasture sooner I will get after it. I've lived here a long time though, and it's more than likely going to be a while. March is always wet. I will look for an alternate location.
One of my concerns is and has been that I want the testing to be defensible. I've seen the assaults in years past on testing protocols. Although it probably wouldn't be any worse than what's going on now. I do regret posting that graph, because I could not defend it, and the cab was not ready.
I appreciate the tenor of your post. Constructive criticism. Valid points.
