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Re: visually impaired nature recordists?

Subject: Re: visually impaired nature recordists?
From: "Wayne Brissette" <>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:44:45 -0600
Walter Knapp  on 12/25/03 at 20:33 stated: 

>I note that the level meters on most current recorders are LCD and could 
>be a problem. Don't have a good solution, for the highly visually 
>impaired something like the metering on the Sound Devices MP2 would be 
>good with it's bright multicolor LED's. But going that route is 
>expensive. My portadisc has a lighted meter of good contrast, but again, 
>it's expensive. Metering is key to this stuff, so a solution would have 
>to be found.

One other note about LCD, and LED meters for that matter, they tend to be
less accurate than analog meters. Depending on what you are doing, this
may or may not affect your work, but it is something to keep in mind.
Also depending on the gear/vendor it's possible with analog meters to get
Peak meters (PPM) instead of the standard VU meters (RMS where 0 dB = +4
dBm). 

Wayne

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