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Re: SPL meter was on a tripod

Posted by Roscoe East (A) on March 20, 2006 at 07:25:42

In Reply to: SPL meter was on a tripod posted by MarylandMike on March 4, 2006 at 13:36:17:

on March 04, 2006 at 13:36:17 MarylandMike wrote:

>>I forgot to mention that the SPL meter was mounted on a tripod before placing it on the chair. <<

Oh, jeez, well no wonder you had such unimpressive results! Since the 100Hz bump your room suffers from cannot be evenly divided by 3 and still yield a whole number, you will *never* be able to get an accurate measurement of the bass trap's effect with the meter on a tripod.

You need to mount it on a quadpod.

(A bipod or a monopod would work also, but you'd have to take your readings very quickly before the meter fell over & hit the floor.)

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