Barium Solo

Barium is available in two versions:

• Barium Solo – a single-channel bargraph meter with 20 LEDs
• Barium Duo – a dual-channel bargraph meter with 2 x 20 LEDs

The Barium bargraph meters feature:

• a 42 dB range with peak hold
• both dBu (dBVu) and dBFS scales
• 0 dBu corresponds to 0 dB on a classic VU meter.

Thanks to its precise calibration, Barium can be used as a reference meter. In our atelier, Barium Solo is used as a reference when calibrating the VU meters in the Ark console.

As standard, Barium meters are set to -18 dBFS = 0 dBu. This can be changed to -24 dBFS = 0 dBu using the switch on the main PCB.

Barium Solo is a single-channel peak signal meter. Its 20-LED bargraph provides a 42 dB range with both dBu and dBFS scales.

Barium Solo can be inserted anywhere in the signal path. To enable this, the input is hard-wired to the output, so the signal path remains continuous without passing through additional active circuitry.