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Re: Competition volume

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Originally Posted by dougwilliams View Post
I'm curious what everyone on here is using to measure sound level? I'm going out an a limb and assume mobile phone apps. As someone who has spent a good deal of time designing and measuring sound levels on cell phones, I would caution that these are devices are not intended for any sort of measurement accuracy, and probably have little correlation to on actual absolute value.
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I also have experience measuring audio capture characteristics of cellphones and can confirm wide variations often within a single device model.

I'm usually at field side during an event and always use hearing protection once matches are underway.
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