Given its appearance in one form or another in all but the cheapest audio gear produced in the last 70 years or so, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the ubiquitous VU meter is just one of those ...

Audio metering is present in almost any equipment that plays or records audio – from cell phones displaying bar graphs of audio output levels, to home stereos with flashing LEDS, to live broadcasting.

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own VU meter but were scared off by the signal process you need to study this tutorial. The one drawback to the hardware choices made here is that there are only ...

It is roughly the average signal level though not precisely. A VU meter is not recommended as the sole metering method for digital systems - it is too slow to catch transients which may overload the ...

Digital and analog worlds continue to collide as Cambridge Audio announced that it has extended the retro-cool digital VU meter update that its Evo streaming amplifiers are getting today to its ...

VU is an abbreviation for volume unit. Thus, a VU meter is a device for measuring the level of sound intensity with audio equipment, such as amplifiers and tape recorders. Although the measurements ...