digital sound meter

[thumper-tx]

I would like to accuratly measure sound levels with different setup's and as my hearing isnt what it once was, I need help. Who out there has done this and what meter do you recommend?  I looked at a lot of them online and I am not sure some go low enough to measure a quiet bow.

If you have recommendations, model and make would be nice.

[nineworlds9]

There are lots of dB meter apps available for iPhone that work well, I'm sure they have them available for other phones like Droid or Galaxy.

[Matty]

There's an app for that

[shedhunta]

I have an app for my i phone.  Just search decibel meter if you have a smart phone.  Mine is called DB meter pro

[Todd Cook]

I use a Dacron and wood arrow meter myself. Sorry, just couldn't help it  

[beendare]

I've tried the phone app and was a bit disappointed...

[hybridbow hunter]

Using dBmeter you just get the peak sound intensity, at place of measurement. But, nothing about duration, frequency, and transmission through the woods ( echo and shield phenomena, wind etc...) by the way the noise eared by critters is a mixed between draw noise, release bow noise and A LOT MORE arrow flight noise. Moreover, animal can ear a wider range of frequency than ours and we don't really know wich one is the jump-the-string trigger . So many animals killed with black widows recurve bows is the evidence that dB doesn't count that much LoL

[LV2HUNT]

Originally posted by hybridbow hunter:
So many animals killed with black widows recurve bows is the evidence that dB doesn't count that much LoL

LMAO   :D

[old_goat2]

Don't know about the I phone apps, but the Android db apps don't really work well for measuring the noise from a bow. The ones I tried only took a measurement once every five seconds, so unless you got lucky and dropped the string at just the right moment, you didn't measure anything but ambient noise.

Originally posted by LV2HUNT:
 

Originally posted by hybridbow hunter:
So many animals killed with black widows recurve bows is the evidence that dB doesn't count that much LoL

LMAO    :D  [/b]

LMAO X2!!!!!!!

Bisch