[BC] Weston VU Meters -

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

IIRC, if the VI is reading tone level, the units are dB; if reading audio,
the units are VU....
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Weston VU Meters -


> ------ 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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