Variable MU Limiter Compressor
The Manley Variable MU Limiter Compressor has been
our 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.
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Stereo Electro-Optical Limiter
Set it and forget it! Our ELOP® Limiters make your
job easy. The principle of operation is based around using
a rectified sample of the audio to shine an LED (Light
Emitting Diode) onto an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor). The
photo-resistor in combination with a fixed resistor simply
act as a changing voltage divider to attenuate the
signal-- like a smart volume control.
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SLAM (Stereo Limiter And Mic Pre-Amplifier)
SLAM! stands for "Stereo Limiter And Micpre" and it
pretty much describes what it will do to most VU meters. We
had to put a switch on this limiter to drop its internal VU
meters down 3 & 6dB to keep the poor little needles
from bending– it'll get LOUD fast (hence the exclamation
mark). And on top of being an amazing pair of (actually
four) Limiters, and Class A tube mic preamps, it also has
masters degrees in DI, AtoD and DtoA, VU and PPM but that
was too much for an acronym.
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Mastering SLAM (Stereo Limiter And Mic
Pre-Amplifier)
Proudly from our beginning, we at MANLEY LABS have
been closely involved with numerous mastering facilities
around the world. For these most demanding engineers in our
industry, we have created specialised products such as our
all-tube tape repro head amps, digital converters,
high-powered vacuum tube monitor amplifiers, through to
custom monitoring consoles, all the way up to complete
facility design and installation.
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