fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 07:32:37AM +1100, cal wrote:
>
>> I started off my working life with 17 years in radio broadcasting, so the
>> "traditional" vu meter and it's rigidly defined characteristics were very
>> much a staple of life. I think that experience still colours my thinking.
>
> :-) That probably means you are US based, as I've *never* seen a
> real VU in any European public broadcast studio (the 'pirates' had
> them but reverted to peak meters when they becamce legal and could
> afford UK gear). I got my exposure to VUs by occasionally working
> on US manufactured desks (MCI!) and aligning Ampex multitracks...
No, Australia, where in those days I think we lived with a perverted mix (eg
0vu == +8dbm) of Brit/BBC influences and US equipment realities. Ah yes,
tweaking the old Ampexes, that was fun!
cheers!
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