Pro Audio: Manley Laboratories

 

 

“When it comes to tubes, Manley is king. When you lift one of these units up, look through the perforated top, feel the weight, and see the tubes, it makes you feel like you're holding a piece of vintage gear. But these units don't just feel manly, they sound clean and sweet with lots of character. The ELOP is one of our favorite units to sell. We often let people borrow one to try out and they typically never return it. One customer said that running any signal through the ELOP (even in bypass mode) adds twenty percent to the resulting signal. It just smoothes out the signal and gives the high a rich and sweet character. We also feel that the Manley ELOP sounds more like a vintage Teletronex LA-2A than any reissue out there.”

- Wind Over the Earth                              

 

 

 

MASSIVE PASSIVE:

Craig 'HUTCH' Hutchison designed these monsters... The MASSIVE PASSIVE is a two channel, four band equalizer, with additional high pass and low pass filters. "Passive" refers to the tone shaping part of this clever new EQ design not using any active circuitry. Only metal film resistors, film capacitors and hand-wound inductors sculpt the sound, kinda like a Pultec EQ on hyper-steroids. Super-beefy, hugely-high-headroom Manley all-tube make-up gain amplifiers deliver your tunes into the next realm. "Massive".... it's a fitting word for this beast. You'll need to experience this.

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VARIABLE MU:

The MANLEY VARIABLE MU® LIMITER COMPRESSOR  has been one of Manley's best selling product for many years. It is one of the very few compressors that has become a real standard in Mastering studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade and probably the next. "Mu" is tube-speak for gain, and Variable Mu® is our registered trademark for this limiter compressor. It works by using the "remote cut-off" or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression. The precious vintage Fairchild 670 also uses this technique and is one of few all-tube compressor to do so, that we know of. Even the side-chain has glowing rectifier bottles. How’s it work? The unique 5670 dual triode is at the center of the peak-reducing and compression action constantly being re-biased by the vacuum tube rectified side-chain control voltages which cause this tube to smoothly change its gain. Just like that. 

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ELOP:

The audio signal passes only through our super-clean single-ended vacuum tube line amplifiers in the Manley unit, and through all-discrete Class A amplifiers in the Langevin version. Each channel can be run separately or switched to “stereo - link ”. Due to their inherently quick attack, these Electro-Optical Limiters are skilled soldiers for tracking vocals or individual instruments, although now with the addition of a very useful sidechain high-pass filter that can switch between 100Hz or 200Hz (or OUT) to allow the limiter to ignore heavy bass lines, the ELOP® limiter is proving more useful for modern urban music where you don’t want the limiter only responding to the loudest “thing” i.e., the BIG bass. If you want the bass line to leave the rest of the mix alone, then this switch is for you ! 

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