Using a VU meter as the GR meter in SSL clone... possible?

I'm wanting to use an LED VU meter in my SSL clone as the gain reduction meter (as opposed to the moving coil meter)...

is it possible to uses a standard VU meter as the gain reduction meter?

Sorry... im certainly a novice.

Do a search - something like this has been asked several times..

A linear-scale led meter will do fine.

Jakob E.

[quote author="gyraf"]Do a search - something like this has been asked several times..

A linear-scale led meter will do fine.

Jakob E.[/quote]



argh! thank you very much!

I was searching for everything but that... LED vu, LED GR, etc, etc

read threw the SSL meta's you will learn mucho and find the answer you seek.

I also asked this question. Never got around to making the led-meters (yet).

Take a look at the datasheets of the LM3914, the LM3915 and the LM3916.. one of them is a linear meter, one is a log-scale meter and one is a VU meter. You need the linear one.

There is a schematic for a 4 led meter on PeterC's site too with some opamps and comparators. It wouldn't be difficult to expand this to 8 or 12 leds and you can adjust the scale by selecting different resistors.

check the forssell opto thread too, tommytones boards had a linear LED compression indicator.