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 tho ...

We all love seeing data represented in pretty ways — whether it’s necessary or not. Take VU meters for example. They’re a super useful tool for audio editors to balance signals, but they ...

VU meters measure the volume (intensity) of analog audio signals. They display signal levels in volume units (VU), a measure of average volume level. By definition, a volume indicator (VI) reading of ...

A reference power level shown on a VU METER. Although 0 VU is shown on a VU meter as the point of 100% MODULATION, it is not identical to the reference called zero level, which in fact refers to -4 dB ...