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MAN-Core
Manley CORE Reference Channel Strip
The Manley CORE is a tube mono channel strip that incorporates some of Manley’s legacy technology with a fresh new approach. Manley CORE has been designed to be musician-user-friendly - allowing a single performer to record and play at the same time with ease. Manley CORE features a mic/line or instrument input with an insert point, and direct or main output. Phase invert, phantom power and high pass filter. The Manley CORE also features Manley’s ELOP™ compressor - found on the iconic VOXBOX. The Manley CORE is hand built in California.
Type: Preamps/Channel Strips
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Manley CORE PRODUCT FEATURES:
Manley’s experience and insight working with the industry’s top recording engineers and musicians culminates in the CORE. At this price, there is no other channel-strip with higher headroom or more seductive sound than the CORE. Handcrafted in the USA, built like a tank, built to endure, the epicenter of your recorded art will be the Manley CORE.
The signal enters through our renowned hand-wound MANLEY IRON® input transformer with nickel laminations in a mu-metal can. The tube amplifying stage is the latest implementation of our famous Class A circuit topology found in the VOXBOX® and Manley Dual Mono & Mono Microphone Preamplifiers. This all-triode vacuum tube circuit runs on a regulated 300 Volt B+ supply yielding huge headroom and relentless output drive capability -
Manley CORE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
ALL-TUBE preamplifier audio path using 1 x 12AX7 for gain and 1 x 6922 White Follower
Balanced Transformer Coupled XLR Microphone Input Impedance: 1200 Ohms
Balanced XLR Line Input Impedance: 10 kOhms
Unbalanced 1/4" Direct Input Impedance: 10 Meg Ohm
Hi-current drive Direct XLR output Impedance: 50 Ohms
Two Independent Sections: MIC PRE
Frequency Response: ±1dB 20Hz - 60K
Noise Floor (A-wgt): -86 dB
Signal to Noise Ratio: 113 dB
Tube complement: 12AX7 & 6922
Gain: 40 to 60 dB
Two Separate Dynamic Processors: COMPRESSOR
Ratio: 3:1
Maximum Reduction: 16 dB
Attack Times: 4mS to 70mS
Release Times: 0.3 to
Physical:
Dimensions: 19" x 3 1/2" x 7" (occupies 2u)
Unit Weight: 8.3 lbs.
Shipping weight: 11.5 lbs.