Loudest Whistle! ! !

[Sapperfire]

So Bill and I were watching some "Record Breaker" show on TV, a group of people were screaming, and some dude trying to break his own record of loudest burp...and I get an idea to play with the Db meter.

Since I was a kid people have always said I could whistle really loud, most even say it hurts to be close to me when I whistle..

So I did some googling and found this

"A SPRINGHEAD man got into the Guinness Book of Records with the world’s loudest-ever whistle. Roy Lomas, 40, of Springhead, discovered his talent after his wife, Jacky, saw a TV programme about record breakers. When the Ivy Green Drive resident recorded his own whistle he found it was 122.5 decibels – more than three decibels higher than the previous record." --

We recorded my whistle at 140.5 Db

 

[V-Tally]

video or it didn't happen. what kind of decibel meter?

 

[Lownslowlsc]

video or it didn't happen. what kind of decibel meter?

Scoche, the one from walmart.

 

[Sapperfire]

The meter was just some App he downloaded on his Droid, seemed accurate tho, it measured speach pretty accurate, since human speach is between 20-30 Db

I just thought it was kinda cool. I doubt id ever make a world record with it, and even if I did I'm sure someone would probably break it

I'll do a video of it next time I go out there to hang out.
Also note, I don't use a "device" but I do use my thumb and index finger

 

[V-Tally]

go to a sound competition and whistle into the mic, who knows you might walk away with a trophy. There's one coming up in Pearland Texas, assuming you are in Texas, with Waco as your location there.

 

[Sapperfire]

Pearland is on the south side of Houston, 3.5 hour drive. 2 hour drive from Waco to Houston, then another hour to get thru Houston.

 

[keatonsdad]

The SPL meters for the iPhone are nuts on with my $800 unit I have. It also depends on the weighting used by the record book. Try SPL Meter for your iPhone they have a free version. It works well. Set the weighting to "C" thats what most of the pros use.

 

[LaserSVT]

Human speech is not 30db. Anyway I compared its readings with what the SHO is supposed to be at 70mph and it was within 2 db. Also normal room noise tracs right and normal conversation also seems to track right.
I sat in Sappers car and tried the stereo and recorded 129db so it seems fairly accurate. I know its not balls on and a 3db difference is HUGE as far as output goes but I did see 141.XX for his whistle with the mic at 3'

When he whistles my ears hurt for quite some time.