kwaldeier

i just bought a string suppressor and im trying to find the way to make my bow the most quiet. what would be a good way to test the volume of my bow?? i plan to try it with it on, off, with stabilizer,without, with one turn out, 2 turn, etc. it all sounds the same to me, either im deaf or the suppressor didnt make it quieter either way my bow is still loud, i think. any help is appreciated!

kwilson16

Have a friend listen to you shoot - with and without the supressor. It's difficult to judge sound from a bow that you are shooting. You can also vary the distance from string to supressor to see if it affects noise level.

kwaldeier

i did both haha my girlfriend said it sounded the same as well

hmthtrfan

video tape it all. then watch it an see.

kwaldeier

did that too lol they all sound the same.

hmthtrfan

you shooting inside or outside?

kwaldeier

i am shooting outside

drockw

Put more rubber on it then I it's still loud

there's really no way to accurately test the sound even with a cheaper decibel meter. Not accurate enough for a bow

OneMustFall

I tried a string dampeners on a bow i had a few years back and to me it never made a diffeence,actually it made it a little worse.I would adjust the distance between the string and rubber using a business card.
UUmmm pse bowmaster never herd of that bow,

bigcountry

I found a few shareware audio sampling programs as I planned to take a good look at noise made by a bow. They are rather complecated. If you do a search, you can find these programs around. They will perform complex freq analysis of fourier analysis, etc.

All you need is a microphone, laptop, and it will capture the noise. Noise amplitude alone does not tell the whole story. You want to look for length of the noise, the frequencies of the noise, etc.