Handbook for Sound Engineers

992 Chapter 25 countless varieties, all proprietary and utterly incompat- ible, of course, since there is a strong commercial im ...

Consoles 993 commonplace in broadcast installations, and the morphing of the concept to using high-bandwidth UDP pipes was a nat ...

994 Chapter 25 There are two other major applications for this router-as-console solution. One is radio studios—several, if rela ...

995 Chapter 26 VU Meters and Devices by Glen Ballou 26.1 General................................................................ ...

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VI Meters and Devices 997 26.1 General To operate a sound recording or reproducing system properly, some method for determining ...

998 Chapter 26 The VU meter is a device whose standard has remained the same since 1961. The meter consists of a 200 mAdc D’Arso ...

VI Meters and Devices 999 a reading of 0 VU or 100% for 0.50 s and a contin- uous overload of five times that voltage. 26.2.1 Me ...

1000 Chapter 26 26.2.2 Reference Levels In the early days of broadcasting and recording, both 10 mW and 12.5 mW into a 500: line ...

VI Meters and Devices 1001 The correction factor of 15.74 dB is added to the meter reading of +1 dBm for a true level reading of ...

1002 Chapter 26 26.3 Wide-Range VU Meters Standard VU meters measure only the upper 23 dB of the signal level. From the practica ...

VI Meters and Devices 1003 programmable character generators. This eliminates any need for screen overlays or masks and ensures ...

1004 Chapter 26 The DIN 45406 and the IEC 268-10 have an integra- tion time of 10 ms and a decay time of 1.5 s for 20 dB of fall ...

VI Meters and Devices 1005 meter also includes peak memory, peak hold, +40 dB gain, and a three-color correlation correction val ...

1006 Chapter 26 The alarms on the left side of the remote are for Phase Error, Bit Stream Corruption, and Full Scale. Fig. 26-13 ...

VI Meters and Devices 1007 unique tool showing all the important parameters of a surround signal at a glance. It gives detailed ...

1008 Chapter 26 frequency-dependent correlation levels induce an unim- pressive envelopment effect of the sL and sR surround sig ...

VI Meters and Devices 1009 Figure 26-15. Surround Sound Analyzer screen views. Courtesy RTW GmbH & Co.KG, Cologne. L C R sL ...

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Part 5 Recording and Playback ...