[BC] Weston VU Meters -

[Larry Bloomfield]

The term VU comes from Volume Unit. Weston got very picky at one point 
and said there is no such thing as a VU meter. It is a VI or Volume 
Indicator that measures in Volume Units.

Barry Mishkind wrote:

> At 10:37 AM 11/10/2005, khcs at juno.com wrote
>
>> ----------
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>         Now, the next question is
>         "where did the term VU come from?"
>
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