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06-13-2023, 05:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-14-2023, 09:34 AM by enorbet2.
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Ping Nauta ---
I have no way of knowing if you're still following this thread but I did finally break out my SPL meter and did my best to match the 2 clips I already posted. The one titled "Clean-ish" averaged around 86db C-weighted and never exceeded 89db. Dimed, being more compressed varied less but averaged around 88db and hit a few very fast peaks of 90db. I had to run several times to verify it ever hit 90db but on some runs it did.
If you watch the YouTube channels for "Andertons's" or "That Pedal Show" both channels demo gear and have large display SPL meters clearly visible. I don't know (maybe I should ask them) but hopefully they are both using C-Weighted instead of A-weighted because C-weighted is more accurate for musical audio whereas A-weighted is more for very wideband noise like from traffic or construction sites. In any case, neither of them nor I consider 90-100db excessively loud and neither does Rick Beato. It's worthy of note that symphonic orchestras commonly hit over 110db.
UPDATE/Correction: - While A-weighting displays lower SPL numbers than C-weighting does in general, and I strongly STRONGLY suspect that is what you have used to think that 90db is loud, especially for Metal, I've discovered that my testing was flawed for lack of calibration and apparent drift of my meter. It's not exactly a linear drift but until I can setup a proper test environment you should add a whopping 6db to the numbers above. Example - the peaks originally measured as 90db are actually closer to 96-97db BUT properly C-Weighted, NOT A-Weighted.
I have no way of knowing if you're still following this thread but I did finally break out my SPL meter and did my best to match the 2 clips I already posted. The one titled "Clean-ish" averaged around 86db C-weighted and never exceeded 89db. Dimed, being more compressed varied less but averaged around 88db and hit a few very fast peaks of 90db. I had to run several times to verify it ever hit 90db but on some runs it did.
If you watch the YouTube channels for "Andertons's" or "That Pedal Show" both channels demo gear and have large display SPL meters clearly visible. I don't know (maybe I should ask them) but hopefully they are both using C-Weighted instead of A-weighted because C-weighted is more accurate for musical audio whereas A-weighted is more for very wideband noise like from traffic or construction sites. In any case, neither of them nor I consider 90-100db excessively loud and neither does Rick Beato. It's worthy of note that symphonic orchestras commonly hit over 110db.
UPDATE/Correction: - While A-weighting displays lower SPL numbers than C-weighting does in general, and I strongly STRONGLY suspect that is what you have used to think that 90db is loud, especially for Metal, I've discovered that my testing was flawed for lack of calibration and apparent drift of my meter. It's not exactly a linear drift but until I can setup a proper test environment you should add a whopping 6db to the numbers above. Example - the peaks originally measured as 90db are actually closer to 96-97db BUT properly C-Weighted, NOT A-Weighted.
