Manley Labs Debuts The Core Reference Channel Strip
From creators of ultra high quality analog outboard gear produced straight out of Southern California, Manley Labs presents to us the CORE analog channel strip. The core purpose of CORE is to provide great sounding tracks without being too complicated as some analog outboard gear can be.
Targeted toward location-based musicians with its ease of use in mind, the tube-driven channel strip from Manley comes equipped with a mic preamp, compressor, EQ and limiter combo-unit.
The Manley CORE
The Manley Core will be available in Q2 of 2014 for $2,250 MSRP.
More info & specs directly from Manley:
“As more musicians are contributing to a project remotely, coached by the recording engineer over the telephone, we saw the need to provide an affordable and easy-to-use, excellent sounding recording channel for these guys. They aren’t engineers, they are musicians! The CORE is feature-laden without being confusing. Its whole purpose is to give the musician the tools he needs to turn in a great sounding track.” – EveAnna Manley, president of Manley Labs.
FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
- 48V Phantom power switch
- 120Hz High Pass Filter switch
- Phase Invert switch
- Input Attenuator (Variable Pad)
- Mic Pre Selectable Gain 40 dB or 60 dB (Total Gain >70 dB)
- Line Amp Selectable Gain 20 dB or 40 dB
MIC / LINE PREAMPLIFIER
- Hand-wound Manley IRON® input transformer with nickel laminations in a mu-metal can
- Class A tube amplifying stage circuit topology (similar to the Manley VOXBOX® and Manley Dual Mono & Mono Microphone Preamplifiers)
- All-triode high voltage vacuum tube circuit
- Regulated 300 Volt B+ supply
¼” DIRECT INPUT
- Similar to the DI in the Manley SLAM!®
- All-discrete solid-state circuit
- 10 Meg Ohm input impedance (ideal for guitars, bass, keyboards, etc.)
COMPRESSOR
- ELOP® technology also found in the Manley VOXBOX
- Compressor placed before the mic preamp—virtually impossible to clip
- Ratio 3:1
- Continuously variable Attack, Release, and Threshold controls
- Silent Bypass switch
EQUALIZER
- Low and High Baxandall shelves (80 Hz and 12 kHz) with ± 12dB range
- Sweepable Midrange Bell EQ (100 Hz – 1 kHz) or (1–10 kHz) with ±10dB range
LIMITER
- Fast attack FET brickwall limiter
- Continuously variable Threshold and Release controls
- Peak Limit LED indicator
- 10dB range output gain control
METER
- Large illuminated analog display
- 3-way meter select to read Compressor gain reduction, Mic Preamp Output level, and Main Output audio levels.
INPUTS AND OUTPUTS
- Balanced XLR mic input
- Balanced XLR line input
- Front panel direct instrument 1/4” input
- Insert point between Mic Preamp/Compressor and EQ/Limiter via 1/4” TRS jack
- Balanced XLR direct output (after Preamp/Compressor section)
- Balanced XLR main output
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