Richard Webb wrote:
On Tue 2011-Jul-05 13:38, William Sommerwerck writes:
Would you care to expound on when one might use a
weighted and when C weighted, since that would be his next
question, and would probably be beneficial? In fact, if we
were still updating the FAQ that might be a good addition.
As I and others said, the A weighting mimics the response of the ear
at low levels. That should be self-explanatory.
INdeed, but you probably wouldn't be surprised at the number of times I've
seen, both in this group, and in alt.audio.pro.live-sound folks asking
which scale to use on their rat shack meter they bought to see how loud
the band is at foh position g. From the nature of the questions the op
usually asks I figured Scott was a good one to expound on the subject a
bit, because he goes into enough detail that the neophyte can understand
it. YOu and I both have the habit of assuming folks understand what they
really don't. NEither one of us were cut out to be teachers methinks g.
Back in the 1970's if you opened one of those Radio Shack SPL meters
you'd see the H-P logo on the circuit board! Mine from that era got
swiped.
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