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RTA
  • CategoryMusic
  • First releasedDecember 14, 2008
  • Versions3 archived
  • Installable2 of 3
  • AvailabilityStill on the App Store
  • SellerAndrew Smith

RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

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A Real Time Analyzer for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Test your speakers, tune your room, do acoustical analysis work or just have a better understanding of audio frequencies. RTA is a professional-grade acoustical analysis tool. All filters meet or exceed ANSI and IEC Class 1 specifications.

Includes Octave and 1/3 Octave modes, with selectable decay times, as well as Peak Hold and true linear Average mode.

*** iOS Microphones

We have analyzied every iOS device, including all of the iPads, all iPhones, and iPod touches, and have created microphone compensation files that are applied automatically. You can trust the results you are getting, often within just a few dB of a far more expensive analyzer. Calibration is updated regularly, automatically, from our cloud-based calibration database.

Upgrade to our iTestMic or iAudioInterface2 to bring your system up to full professional specs.

*** Save and Recall Graphs

You can save and recall graphs, marked with the GPS location, date & time, and your comment, as well as store the image to your photo roll.

Export the data as an XLS formatted file to your computer for inclusion in reports or further analysis.

*** Max and Min Bars

You can also turn on resettable Max/Min bars (see image #4) to capture peaks. Double-tap to reset the bars.

*** Specifications and Devices

The internal iPhone mic has a noise floor near 30 dB, and if your are running iOS 6, clips around 120 dB.

*** Touch GUI

Fully interactive touch GUI features includes scroll up/down, pinch to zoom or compress the vertical dB scale, or swipe horizontally to get a cursor that reads out the exact dB level and frequency across the screen. To make the cursor disappear, swipe it off the graph to the left.

The landscape-mode display flips 180 degrees so that you can face the internal mic in either direction.

*** Overlay Curves

Also included are optional noise curve overlays, in NCB, RC, PNC, NC, X-Curve and NR mode. See picture #2 for an example. Use this feature to get a quick reading on the noise levels in a room. Also includes the cinema large-room X-curve overlay.

*** Calibration

RTA can be fully calibrated, whether you are using it with the internal iOS microphone, or one of our professional test & measurement mic solutions. And, if you are using iTestMic, the mic calibration is transmitted directly to the app, so you are always calibrated.

*** RTA or FFT?

If you are wondering if you should download this app or our FFT app, check out our website, we have a page devoted to this topic.

See our other acoustics and audio apps, including AudioTools.

To install apps directly onto this device, it must be jailbroken with AppSync installed.
2.2
Requires iOS 3.0+
1.8 MB Install Download
2.3
Requires iOS 3.0+
1.9 MB Install Download
3.0
Requires iOS 3.1.2+
2.1 MB Install Download

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Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Useful, but needs updates/configurability
     
by wigum · September 23, 2012

Great app! I wish it was updated for newer products(iPad models, iPhone 5, etc.)

Has been great until now.
     
by MWW83 · September 22, 2019

Not working properly with iOS 13.0 on iPhone XS.

Crashes
     
by LNDBA · June 26, 2010

The app ran fine after OS4 upgrade, but started crashing after last update of RTA was installed.

FOH Engineer
     
by Audio Professional · June 21, 2013

Great tool for the money. I use this app for quick references during every live show.

car audio absolute need
     
by smaugthewyrm · June 28, 2010

this app combined with the switcheasy 'thumbtack' microphone makes a very, very accurate method of tuning in your car stereo. when results are compared to an expensive audiocontrol RTA, the margin of diff. is negligible. i highly recommend this app. btw, the microphone sold by this company is also excellent, and an even better match then the above mentioned mic.

JZ
     
by Jake Brew · August 27, 2018

Just saved my bacon. Have a Trane Centravac chiller making a whine noise. This showed it is an 8k whine at the compressor. Now I have some data to go back to Trane with. I csn use this im my small audio room in my house now for some frequency readings. Its worth the dough.

Works!
     
by Perpelxed · November 14, 2023

Simple to use and it provides all the info that I need. Works fine on my iPhone 15 Pro.

How accurate?
     
by starfall88 · May 31, 2020

How accurate is this compare to a calibrated measuring mic? My goal is to EQ my room to have a flat response. I have an iPhone XS Max.

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.

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