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About#

Whether the files are from long-term recordings or have very high sample rates, or both, dBWav offers a powerful set of tools to provide one-third octave band sound level processing, calculation of RMS and percentile levels, FFT display, spectrograms, exposure charts and more. The software has been specifically tailored for hydrophone recordings and is compatible a number of hydrophones such as Ocean Instruments SoundTrap hydrophones.

Underwater acoustic measurements from deployed hydrophones typically generate large amounts of data in the form of raw audio files that are potentially recorded over many months. The use of traditional software to open, navigate and analyse these large files is a cumbersome process due to the consumption of vast amounts of PC processing and memory resources. To enable efficient and effective processing of these files, we developed our own software tool and dBWav was born.

dBWav is available commercially, and requires a current, registered licence key. It is currently used by consultants and researchers worldwide. We’d love to hear from you with any feedback, feature requests or queries related to dBWav and how it works.

What dBWav can do#

The heart of dBWav is a stream-based file handler which can process multi-GB audio files from a standard desktop PC or laptop.

dBWav converts the high-resolution audio data set to short term energy levels to simplify your analysis and investigation.