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Gain Staging - Episode 1

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The Benefits of a VU Meter for Gain Staging

The VU meter developed from 1939 and unleashed on a grateful world in 1942. It's an electromechanical gadget with no active devices, no tubes, nor transistors. Drive it with a sine wave signal of 1.228 volts RMS or plus 4 dBU, and you'll get a reading of zero VU. A standard VU meter goes up to plus three VU full scale,. And a more modern one will have a red LED to indicate even higher peaks.

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