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Old 08-23-2018, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by PSYCHO View Post
Hey Gaz how's things mate,

Funny thing with the meter was I used 2 different ones over a couple of days yes they are open pipes and after 3500 they seem to reduce DBs by about 10 a bit weird but could be the sweet spot for the quad cams at 6500 it wasn't much louder only by 7 dbs unless you stabbed it then she was insanely loud lol

Cheers Psycho
You used the meter.

Have you done this before, do you know the procedure, as used by the Police, Transport Dept etc?

As Treeve has said below, each 3 dB increase represents a noise twice as loud, as perceived by the human ear.

You can see here, you compare to a jet fighter:

http://www.industrialnoisecontrol.co...e-examples.htm

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Decibels are a logarithmic scale with each 3dB representing a doubling of the noise. So 7 dB isn’t a small increase, it means it’s a little over 4 times louder.
I'm glad somebody else knows this.
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