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Subject: Re: how to control Microtrack 2496 mic input level
From: "Mark R." <>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:26:04 +0900
Hi Dan,


>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.

 As my good friend Leonard and I have joked about many times before, he
being full blooded Sicilian and cutting his teeth during the analog circuit
makes for a stubborn engineer ;^) Bless his soul.
   I will mention this error in terminology to him.
   -Mark


 On 11/14/05, Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> >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-
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
>
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