Andrew SmithSPL Customer Service
- CompanyAndrew Smith
- CategoryMusic
- Published2008-12-03
- Current Version7.2
- Price$8.99
- Content Rating4+
- CompatibilityMin. IOS 12.1
SPL is a professional-grade digital sound level meter (decibel meter) for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. It includes all of the modes, filters, and features that you would expect from a professional ANSI or IEC Sound Level Meter. All filters and averaging modes meet or exceed the criteria for ANSI Type 1 standards or better. SPL is created from the same team who brought you the Audio Toolbox and ATB Plus.
Store Results -- Uses the same powerful Save / Recall engine as our premier app, AudioTools. Allows storing GPS and time-stamped results, and exporting them to your computer.
You can also use SPL with our calibrated iPhone measurement mic, iTestMic, or iAudioInterface.
The screen flips if you turn the phone upside down, so that you can point the built-in iPhone mic directly at the sound source.
*** Modes: Slow, Fast, Impulse, Peak, and Leq.
*** Filters: A and C weighting, and 10 octave band filters.
*** Includes a resettable Max field to track the highest reading.
*** Includes a reference field (except in Leq mode) so that you can set a reference level and do seat-to-seat comparisons.
The SPL meter can be fully calibrated. It comes preset with the calibration for a typical iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Most iOS devices will be within a few dB of this reading. If you have access, even temporarily, to a calibrated sound level meter, just use the calibration field on the settings scree to match the meter, and you will be accurately calibrated.
Also, see our other professional-grade audio apps: AudioTools, our premier suite of professional-caliber audio and acoustics test apps, Speaker Pop, to test speaker polarity, and RTA, a real-time analyzer for the iPhone.
And, we have a group of calibrated, accurate measurement microphones, including iTestMic,iTestMic2, and iAudioInterface2, that allows full professional results for Type 1 or Type 2 measurements.
This will allow measuring a range from approximately 30 dB SPL to 130 dB SPL. Each mic will include a calibration factor that you will enter into the SPL app for calibrated measurements. This mic will also work with Speaker Pop, our speaker polarity tester, FFT, RTA, ETC, and other acoustical measurement apps in our AudioTools app that is available now.
Also, see our iAudioInterface2 system, which supports any pro test and measurement mic.
Now includes an iPhone internal mic compensation filter, to cancel out the low-frequency roll-off present in the iPhone and other iOS devices.
See our other audio apps, including AudioTools.
SPL App Comments & Reviews
SPL Positive Reviews
Best db meter on for iPhone.Best db meter on for iPhone. I've downloaded and used them all. This one is easy to use, has the most parameter settings, and the ability to record peaks. It is however, strictly a db meter. Some other meters show frequency and plots of readings over time. These would be nice features to see added. Ther one feature I think is clearly missing is the ability to utilize the capabilities of the iPhone to actually transmit the captured data. If this were coupled by the ability to record real time readings this would be an awesome application. Having spectral analysis, and perhaps capture, would make it perfect..Version: 0
Extremely usefulIt's amazing that anyone gives this application anything less than a stellar review. It does what it's supposed to do, does it well and reasonably accurately. It is preposterously inexpensive. And it's always here, on my phone, ready to use whenever I need it. I do wish that the reviews were flagged and votes not counted when people simply can't figure out how to use it or don't like the way it looks. It renders the "5 star" voting approach meaningless for those of us who are looking for tools that work. It's a tool, not a toy or a game..Version: 0
ContextI wish people would write reviews within the context of the App. This is an SPL meter that works on you phone. IE a reference tool when you're caught without your pro gear. And as such it works very well. Also, there's a reason for a 105 db threshold on your iPhone. Someone is holding a phone to their ear as you transmit a +db signal. Granted I'm sure no phone manufacturer would knowingly create a reciever that would reach beyond pain and damage thresholds. C'mon people think!.Version: 0
Enthusiastically recommendedAfter 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!.Version: 4.0
OwnerI agree with review 4 very nice software you have your phone with you all the time but not your audio tool box or ivie or other professional tools But you do have your phone John.Version: 0
SPL - Studio Six DigitalGreat app, really easy to use and quite accurate without additional calibration. Compared it to Radio Shack SPL meter and they are both very close..Version: 0
It WorksPerfectly.Version: 0
An excellent tool!My only wish: I'd love to have the analog-style UI from their $.99 younger brother SPL Meter..Version: 0
Great App, but small issue...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..Version: 2.5
Crash at 66.6dbLike the title says this app apparently likes heavy metal or satan or both. It has crashed several times frozen on 66.6db. \m/.Version: 3.3
Pretty sweet appI'm not sure if I'm using it rite or if it's accurate but it's fun to mess with and I was wondering what's the max reading on this thing everything I've tried it on came to 107.6db can it go higher??.Version: 0
Great appBest iPhone db meter I've seen..Version: 0
Inaccurate after iOS 8 updateSpl does not read correctly after updating to iOS 8.Version: 3.9
Needs an updateThis is a great application that does as advertised. We use it in a church setting to monitor levels for the congregation and work on mix levels. The application is not happy with iOS 4.1. Please update it..Version: 0
SPL App hangs when iPhone rings, otherwise coolI emailed Mr. Smith and got an instant reply (gee I luv that). Did as he suggested, deleted and redownloaded and installed the SPL APP. Still same issue. I did some testing and if my iPhone (mine is a 3GS iOS4.3) rings, the SPL app dB readings get hung and all you can do is reboot the phone to get SPL working again. Since I have provided a repeatable senerio to aggevate this bug I have not heard back from Mr. Smith. All I can hope is he is working on it. Seems thousands (he claims) are not having trouble. Do they get calls when using it? Are they on iOS4.3?? The App says tested with iOS4.2. Otherwise, the app is nice to use and will help me in my job of measuring paging volumes over industrial noise levels. In the end, I can't give it 5 stars with a repeatable bug that hangs the SPL App and no email reply that says I'm working on it and BTW thanks for the info. So was my support issue of 1 in a 1000+ treated as junk or is it being looked at? There has to be a first I figure and not everyone will call for support, so there are likely more than just me. At $8.99 (higher than average cost) I'd expect proffesional support (don't feel the comment that I'm the only one and no email back is a professional support). All I can hope for is a patched version shortly..Version: 2.5
Love it!Great meter. Love that it flips around. This thing rocks!!!!.Version: 0
ProfessionalVery nice!! Just one request off the top though... Please add an option to stop the screen time-out... That would be great, thanks!.Version: 0
Very niceClean, simple and handy. Glad I bought it!.Version: 0
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