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<blockquote data-quote="Sean Schult" data-source="post: 140214" data-attributes="member: 9402"><p>Re: SPL Alarm iPad/iPhone App ?</p><p></p><p>What about calibration? The app may have control over the audio interface's gain, but ultimately all it gets back from the OS is sample values. There needs to be some conversion done to get that to dB SPL, and that conversion would have been calibrated on the developer's device -- which may be a different model, different mic, different batch, even intra-batch variance is possible. Any tester without calibration is nothing more than a novelty...</p><p></p><p>Also what about the directional properties of the mic? Aren't the mics on those devices pointing towards the front or bottom of the device, but you would want the screen facing you at FoH right? So the mic would ideally be on the back, pointing at the sound source?</p><p></p><p>I'd just get a proper SPL meter, standalone unit, one with a nice bright screen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sean Schult, post: 140214, member: 9402"] Re: SPL Alarm iPad/iPhone App ? What about calibration? The app may have control over the audio interface's gain, but ultimately all it gets back from the OS is sample values. There needs to be some conversion done to get that to dB SPL, and that conversion would have been calibrated on the developer's device -- which may be a different model, different mic, different batch, even intra-batch variance is possible. Any tester without calibration is nothing more than a novelty... Also what about the directional properties of the mic? Aren't the mics on those devices pointing towards the front or bottom of the device, but you would want the screen facing you at FoH right? So the mic would ideally be on the back, pointing at the sound source? I'd just get a proper SPL meter, standalone unit, one with a nice bright screen. [/QUOTE]
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