SPL Reviews – Page 2

Great App, but small issue...

brodrummer

I install professional audio and run sound at various events and I've been using this app for over a year with great success. The readings are very accurate and the app is easy to use. I'm glad this app came out because it is easy to check SPL on the fly without carrying a meter around with me everywhere I go. However, since the latest version came out, it has been crashing my phone every time I use it. It freezes, and my phone becomes completely unresponsive. I cannot even reboot. I would have gave it 5 stars except for this problem. Please fix this app because I use it almost weekly. Thanks.

Crash at 66.6db

Sarlac

Like the title says this app apparently likes heavy metal or satan or both. It has crashed several times frozen on 66.6db. \m/

SPL

Artsonic

Big battery drain

Horrible color scheme

Bryanacarter

I have loved this app previously. In fact, I would have always given this app five stars until this version. I have been using this app for years now and I have always used the 'dark metal' color scheme. Now the only option is white. The white color option is TERRIBLE!!!!! As a foh guy, I use this app a lot. But I think I will be looking for another app because the white color scheme adds extra light to foh and the white is extremely harsh on the eyes. If you have not updated to the newest version, don't. It's not worth it.

UI elements do not scale correctly on iPad

N2LLC

I've found that UI elements do not scale correctly on iPad such as "74.5" would show up as "74..." for the peak dB value. This makes it unusable on iPad.

Enthusiastically recommended

jeliotb

After accidentally losing the calibration of my subwoofer, I discovered that my trusty Radio Shack SPL meter was no longer accurate with sub-100-Hz test tones. I bought SPL and found it agreed stably within 1 dB of my main channel measurements using the old hardware and wideband pink noise. This is more than enough to validate it as a replacement for the RS meter, while it is a lot more cost-effective -- I spent the same amount today on a 9-V battery for the meter as the app cost!

Amazing

Gollnick

Oh no! A disastrous update!!! They finally took the horrible, battery-draining background operation so-call "feature" out of RTA, but they put it into SPL. Now, when you exit this app in the conventional way, it keeps running and draining your battery!!! Why they think this is a good idea or should be the default operation is just beyond me. Please, please, make this behavior optional and default it to operate in the way that most iPhone apps do, to exit the app when you press the home button. ------ original review ------- I have recently had the opportunity to compare with a very calibrated instrument and was very favorably impressed. This thing works very well. I also checked my Radio Shack meter at the same time and it's good right around 1KHz which is where -- if you read its instructions -- it is calibrated. The Radio Shack SPL meter, by the way, while a bargain for the price and quite good for what it is, is not a good tool for tuning subwoofers at all. This iPhone ap, while better, still isn't the best for subs either with the built-in mic, but worked much better with an external. Also, this ap's A-weight filter is better than Radio Shack's. In conclusion, this ap is a bargain for the price and so handy to have with you. A+. My one suggested improvement: a logging mode which logs SPL at selectable intervals -- minutes and seconds -- and then can e-mail the log out in csv format with time and SPL reading.