[BC] Weston VU Meters -

Al Stewart stewarta
Thu Nov 10 13:06:09 CST 2005


I always heard Volume Unit .. for VU.

Al

------ At 11:04 AM 11/10/2005 -0700, Barry Mishkind wrote: -------
  

>At 10:37 AM 11/10/2005, khcs at juno.com wrote
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>>If I might be permitted to jump in here, IIRC the "A" scale has the dB on top and the 0-100+% on the bottom, used more for recording.  The "B" scale has percent on top (for mod monitors and suchlike broadcast use) with the dB scale on the bottom.
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>        Now, the next question is
>        "where did the term VU come from?" 
>
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Al Stewart
stewarta at kootenay.com
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