Product details
The Manley CORE is a professional analogue channel strip that combines Manley’s high-voltage tube preamplification with versatile dynamics processing and musical equalisation. Featuring a transformer-coupled microphone input, an ELOP® optical-style compressor, a three-band EQ, and a fast-acting FET limiter, it provides a complete signal-processing chain for recording vocals, instruments, and other sources in professional studio environments.
Key Features
- All-tube microphone and line preamplifier with a high-voltage Class A circuit
- Manley Iron® transformer-coupled microphone input
- 12AX7WA gain-stage tube and 6922 White Follower output stage
- Selectable microphone gain settings of 40 dB and 60 dB
- Selectable line-input gain settings of 20 dB and 40 dB
- Front-panel high-impedance direct instrument input for guitars, bass, and keyboards
- ELOP® compressor with a 3:1 ratio and continuously variable attack, release, and threshold controls
- Three-band EQ featuring low- and high-frequency Baxandall shelving filters and a sweepable midrange bell filter
- FET brick-wall limiter with adjustable threshold and release
- Switchable +48 V phantom power, polarity inversion, and 120 Hz high-pass filter
- Balanced XLR microphone and line inputs
- Balanced XLR direct and main outputs
- Insert point between the preamp and subsequent processing stages
- Illuminated analogue VU meter with selectable monitoring of output levels and compressor gain reduction
- 10 dB range of output gain control
- Handcrafted 19-inch, 2U rackmount chassis
Technical Specifications
- Product Type: Mono tube channel strip
- Preamplifier Circuit: Class A all-tube design
- Vacuum Tubes: 1 × 12AX7WA and 1 × 6922
- Microphone Gain: 40 dB or 60 dB
- Line Gain: 20 dB or 40 dB
- Compressor: ELOP® optical-style compressor, 3:1 ratio
- Maximum Compressor Gain Reduction: 16 dB
- Equaliser: Three-band analogue EQ
- Low Shelf: 80 Hz, ±12 dB
- High Shelf: 12 kHz, ±12 dB
- Sweepable Midrange: 100 Hz–1 kHz or 1–10 kHz, ±10 dB
- Limiter: FET brick-wall limiter
- High-Pass Filter: 120 Hz, 6 dB/octave
- Microphone Input: Balanced XLR, transformer-coupled
- Line Input: Balanced XLR
- Instrument Input: ¼-inch unbalanced direct input
- Outputs: Balanced XLR direct output and main output
- Rack Format: 19-inch, 2U
- Power Supply: Internal universal supply, 90–254 VAC
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