Well, I brought home the digital SPL meter tonight being that I'm not going in for a week and I don't want to leave the audio techs without a good meter, and I've never really used the digital one much, besides for the occasional test for liability purposes for concerts so thought I'd see for myself how it was.
Wow, do I hate it. A lot.
Watching a mildly swinging needle is one thing. Watching the numbers skip between 3 different numbers is worthy of an eye roll. Gee, thanks, little meter buddy... you're within 100% of the correct value - almost 50% each way.
Good enough for now, I'll bring home the analog one in a week and fine tune the levels.
Funny though how you perceive sub levels to be less than they really are - as a test of my hearing, I zeroed all the levels and guestimated at the right balance. I was close... at most 2dB off, except the sub, where I was 8dB out.
Bren R.
