Doepfer

Hi all,
Some may be interested in an alternative to the moving coil school of 
thought on VU meters. Velleman make a nice kit (= soldering involved) 
of a twin 10-LED VU meter. (Velleman kit no. is K4305: 
www.maplin.co.uk part no. is VF91Y.) Fits really nicely behind a 
suitably-drilled blank 8hp panel. I use one as the last thing between 
my A-100 (takes the output from an A-134 Pan module) and my amp, so 
that I may know if I'm in danger of turning my amp into toast (with 
up to +/-12 signals floating around, when I started out I considered 
that a real possibility!). Only downside is that because of a max of 
20 LEDs all on at once, its a bit greedy on current (>220mA), so I 
also bought a cheap transformer to power it separately. I've used the 
Cliff jacks on it too, so it blends in nicely.

Tim