LED Audio VU Meter


Posted on Sep 27, 2012

This project is also an essential part of the expandable analyser to be published soon (or perhaps `eventually`), and one meter circuit is used for each frequency band. There are many other uses for a simple LED VU meter. They are ideal as power meters on amplifiers, can be used with mixers (including the high quality mixer described in the project pages), preamps and any other application where it is important to know the signal level. The circuit is completely conventional, and is based on the application notes from National Semiconductor. The circuit is shown in Figure 1 and as you can see it uses a single IC and a few discrete components. There are two rectifier circuits so that the DC to the LEDs is almost unfiltered.


LED Audio VU Meter
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