Scheduling ultrasonic bonders for optimum settings has long been a mystery. As device bond pads get smaller and silicon and gallium arsenide devices get thinner, ultrasonic energy control at the bond interface becomes very critical. The use of a capacitive microphone sound meter to measure the compressional sound waves at the lower tip of a bonding tool has helped to control these critical energy settings. The results of implementing this process on 25 thermosonic bonders has reduced the damage to microwave devices by 30% and decreased the wire bond assembly time 25%.