[LAD] Calculate R M S (Alfs Kurmis)

Jeff McClintock jef at synthedit.com
Fri Feb 18 20:16:32 UTC 2011


> From: Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:36:44AM +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:
> 
> > With a RMS VU Meter you measure a 1KHz tone as a reference.
> 
> A contradiction... A VU does not measure RMS, whatever does measure
> RMS is not a VU.

Isn't a VU Meter a standard root-mean-square function followed by a 300ms
integration to give it some 'weight'? ...calibrated against a 1kHz tone?





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