[BC] Weston VU Meters -

[Rich Wood]

------ At 01:04 PM 11/10/2005, Barry Mishkind 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?"

Many of the older rack mounted meters had switches that inserted 
resistors. It appeared to me that "Volume Units" had different 
meanings depending on what fed it.

Rich


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