Once a mainstay of every station, the reel-to-reel recorder is now a mystery to some people. While most radio stations are fully digital now, there are still a few limited (often forgotten) parts of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. One thing teenagers love is playing loud music. Another ...

VFD displays are beloved for their eerie glow that sits somewhere just off what you’d call blue. [mircemk] used one of these displays to create an old-school VU meter that looks straight out of a ...

Juergen Grau has once again returned to Kickstarter to launch his Nixie IN-28 Dot tubes VU-Meter, under the Make 100 banner allowing those interested to help create a small production one of 100 units ...

Weston type 30, model 862 vu indicator with ‘B’ scale on RCA OP-6 portable amplifier. A Daven resistor network reduced the output from +11 dBm to telco-required +8 for 3 dB line isolation, sent the ...

VU (Volume Unit) meters are often included in analog audio equipments to display a signal level in Visual Units. We are building a mono input VU meter in this project. You can build one pair to use ...

The circuit was designed based on the functionality of LM3915 integrated circuit to produce a volume unit meter (VU Meter) that will be connected to the output of power amplifier. Power Amplifier – a ...

In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the compression, ...