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“With any acoustic instrument that you record, you have some kind of ambience happening. Any electric instrument, when it’s direct, doesn’t have any ambience at all. So for me the challenge is not to try to simulate the acoustic sound, but to simulate some of the aspects of an acoustic sound.”- bassist Michael Manring

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VU meter

Short for volume unit meter, a meter that is designed to respond to sound in the same way our ears do. Instead of measuring peaks and transients, the VU meter has slower response that shows average levels. It is referenced to +4 dBu at 0 VU and has specific needle ballistics that are set by ANSI (American National Standards Institute).




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