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Old 5th December 2008   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rokus666 View Post
I don't have RMS volt meter unfortunately.
I have radio shack SPL meter and Fluke 73 III multimeter.
I am not sure if any of those can read RMS
is there any other way of doing this ?
Unfortunately your Fluke is not very accurate at that frequency, within in that voltage measurement range (rated to 500Hz). If you can find a 100Hz @ -20dBFS test file, then it should work (your multimeter isn't true RMS, but because the stimulus is a sine wave, it should be OK). Just connect pins 2 and 3 from the XLR to + and - respectively.


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