How loud is each sound bar?

[Panzer]

For example, how far away can an animal hear me when using my ATV, which reaches 3 red sound bars, or how far can I be heard from when crouch sprinting with soft feet perk, which reaches 2-3 white sound bars (depending on what foliage you traverse)
I wanna get to know the ranges, so I'm not just running around without realising I'm scaring animals, but I also don't want to be crouching and moving extremely slowly when I don't need to be.

[TangOscar]

I thought about that as well. The problem is, that too many stuff influence it. Like, how good can an animal hear, difficulty of the animal, the wind, the ground itself, rain, your skills/perks, and so on.
But to give it numbers, I define a white bar as 20m and red ones as 50m.

[Panzer]

Originally posted by TangOscar_AUT:

I thought about that as well. The problem is, that too many stuff influence it. Like, how good can an animal hear, difficulty of the animal, the wind, the ground itself, rain, your skills/perks, and so on.
But to give it numbers, I define a white bar as 20m and red ones as 50m.

surely cant be one white bar being 20 metres, I've been like 10 metres from a moose which I think has great hearing in the codex, but I was moving with about 3 bars

[TangOscar]

That is what I mean with too much is depending on it.

[Mr. Ed]

ATV makes so much noise it can spook some animals within 250-300 meters. Maxed out white bars can spook some animals within 150 meters. I say "some" because there's some variance between species and the difficulty rating of the animals. It's much easier to sneak up on a moose buffalo or roe deer than it is to sneak up on a fox or coyote. It's easier to sneak up on any animal while it is eating, drinking or resting. An important thing to remember is that as your visibility to the animals increases, the more noise you will make when you move. You cannot have one without the other. An animal that can detect you with 2 of its 3 senses has pinned your location down and the jig is up. Learning how and when to move is part of hunting.

[AintJaMama (Joe/BrotherBoaz)]

I thought it was 10, 20, 30 --red bar 50, 100, 150.

It isn't exact though on what spooks animals as i'm sure we've all spooked animals 50 meters out with two white bars and not spooked animals inside of 20 meters with two white bars. Seems to be an approximation if anything. Was it scent or visualization or sound? Hard to know unless you keep exact count and check the stats page, if that's even correct.