Hi there Daniel and other interested parties who have invested in the Klanghelm VU VST meters. I have a pair of very high quality VU's in a special box and they sit right in front of me. My monitor bottom edge actually sits right on top of this box. I am able to set up the Klanghelm meters so they are just sitting right above the real VU's.

I have found the best settings which make the Klanghelm meters follow the exact ballisitic of my real ones are:

VU Rise time = 200 ms, Fall time 400 ms and overshoot +1.

Although I know the rise time should be 300ms but the fact is when I set it there, the Klanghelm meters always seem to be lagging behind the real ones in terms of rise, and they fell back too fast for the fall. I created special test tones that pulse with time in between so you can clearly see the rise and fall movements of both sets of meters together. Of course music is always a good check and with the settings above the meter movements move in a very very similar way on both real and vst meters.

You need to set the K syetem ref level on the Klanghelm meters of course to your chosen K system or DAW ref level at the time. For me it is K -14 but it may be either -12 or -20. It does not matter in terms of ballistics but of course does in terms of 0 db VU. If the levels are not matched then the Klanghelm meters will either overshoot or not make it up the scale properly either.