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Re: how to control Microtrack 2496 mic input level

Subject: Re: how to control Microtrack 2496 mic input level
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:03:04 -0800
>microphone input needed to achieve 0 dB VU

Just a technical note; the writer of the Sonic Studios review seems
to use the term "VU meter" interchangeably with "record level meter."
They are not the same thing. "VU meter" means an average-responding
meter with a 300 ms rise and fall time. Most digital devices,
including the MicroTrack, so far as I know, have peak meters, not VU
meters.

The writer is further confused when he or she writes "average"
referring to the bargraph record level meter on the MicroTrack. As
far as I can tell, the meter is an instantaneous peak meter with a
peak hold indication. No average involved.

-Dan Dugan

p.s. May 1, 2006, will be the 67th birthday of the VU (volume unit) meter.

-dD-


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