I'm looking for any information, recommendations, thoughts, etc on noise meters. I don't need MIL spec quality, I'm not trying to rate the performance of a suppressor. Is there a decent unit that can be rented? Does anyone even rent them? Is there an inexpensive unit that can be purchased?
Situation - we live in a rural village zoned area. Family bought the 10 acre farm across the street. Only "farming" that had been done in the last 25 years was someone planting corn in the 3 acre field in the back. New owner wants to make this into a barn wedding/outdoor banquet facility. The barn is officially 5 feet off the road (no shoulder on the road either, that is 5 feet from the driving lane). We are directly across the street, up a steep bank such that we look down on the barn roof. It is 220 ft from our front door to the barn. His first zoning attempt failed. He plans to appeal.
But, in the mean time, his daughter is going to have her wedding here. And that is fine, I don't have a problem with having a family function on anyone's property. However, what I would like to do is record the sound levels for a few days before, then the day of the wedding. In PA it is illegal to record a conversation without consent, so I can't just record everything - that would get me busted for a felony. But I can record the sound levels. And if possible, have a few neighbors do the same - they all showed up to oppose the zoning hearing, so I'm sure they would go along with this.
Thanks!
Situation - we live in a rural village zoned area. Family bought the 10 acre farm across the street. Only "farming" that had been done in the last 25 years was someone planting corn in the 3 acre field in the back. New owner wants to make this into a barn wedding/outdoor banquet facility. The barn is officially 5 feet off the road (no shoulder on the road either, that is 5 feet from the driving lane). We are directly across the street, up a steep bank such that we look down on the barn roof. It is 220 ft from our front door to the barn. His first zoning attempt failed. He plans to appeal.
But, in the mean time, his daughter is going to have her wedding here. And that is fine, I don't have a problem with having a family function on anyone's property. However, what I would like to do is record the sound levels for a few days before, then the day of the wedding. In PA it is illegal to record a conversation without consent, so I can't just record everything - that would get me busted for a felony. But I can record the sound levels. And if possible, have a few neighbors do the same - they all showed up to oppose the zoning hearing, so I'm sure they would go along with this.
Thanks!
