Manley Labs Stereo Variable MU Mastering Version with Mid Side Mod Option
The Manley Mastering ED Stereo Variable MU Limiter Compressor has been the best selling product from Manley Laboratories for many years, and is one of the only compressors that have become a standard in Mastering studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade. The Variable Mu is a registered trademark for the limiter compressor. It works by using a "remote cut-off" or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression.
The COMPRESS mode is soft-knee 1.5 to 1 ratio while the sharper knee limit modes start at 4 to 1 and move to a more dramatic ratio of 20 to 1 with the limit is over 12dB. The knee will actually soften as more limiting is used. To create distortion simply turn up the input and turn down the output while using very little or no compression.
Just because the Variable Mu Limiter Compressor has ganged input control, does not mean that it has become mono-unfriendly. There are separate threshold and output controls to compensate. When you switch to LINK mode you really get to what the unit can do better than anything else: final mix, 2-track, or mastering limiting and compression. It really doesn't get much better than this. Get yours today at Alto Music!
MID/SIDE (a.k.a. Vertical/Lateral, or Sum/Difference)
This modification opens the door to stereo encoding and decoding as well as exciting image enhancement processing capabilities. For instance, setting to compress only the in-phase information allows the augmentation of the stereo image as the out-of-phase content is left untouched. Or, conversely, if you need a "more-mono" mix for broadcast, or vinyl-cutting for instance, you can set it to kill off more of the out-of-phase info which leaves more in-phase material in the final result. Read more about the MS Mod on page 12 of the Owner's Manual.
Total mod cost for the M-S option is $800 NET added to the base cost.
In order to add both M-S and the HP SC mods, we move the power switch to the rear panel and install both channels' HP SC switch to the center hole where the power switch was. The M-S switches then flank this switch.
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Manley Labs Stereo Variable MU Mastering Version with Mid Side Mod Option
Manley Labs Stereo Variable MU Mastering Version with Mid Side Mod Option
The Manley Mastering ED Stereo Variable MU Limiter Compressor has been the best selling product from Manley Laboratories for many years, and is one of the only compressors that have become a standard in Mastering studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade. The Variable Mu is a registered trademark for the limiter compressor. It works by using a "remote cut-off" or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression.
The COMPRESS mode is soft-knee 1.5 to 1 ratio while the sharper knee limit modes start at 4 to 1 and move to a more dramatic ratio of 20 to 1 with the limit is over 12dB. The knee will actually soften as more limiting is used. To create distortion simply turn up the input and turn down the output while using very little or no compression.
Just because the Variable Mu Limiter Compressor has ganged input control, does not mean that it has become mono-unfriendly. There are separate threshold and output controls to compensate. When you switch to LINK mode you really get to what the unit can do better than anything else: final mix, 2-track, or mastering limiting and compression. It really doesn't get much better than this. Get yours today at Alto Music!
MID/SIDE (a.k.a. Vertical/Lateral, or Sum/Difference)
This modification opens the door to stereo encoding and decoding as well as exciting image enhancement processing capabilities. For instance, setting to compress only the in-phase information allows the augmentation of the stereo image as the out-of-phase content is left untouched. Or, conversely, if you need a "more-mono" mix for broadcast, or vinyl-cutting for instance, you can set it to kill off more of the out-of-phase info which leaves more in-phase material in the final result. Read more about the MS Mod on page 12 of the Owner's Manual.
Total mod cost for the M-S option is $800 NET added to the base cost.
In order to add both M-S and the HP SC mods, we move the power switch to the rear panel and install both channels' HP SC switch to the center hole where the power switch was. The M-S switches then flank this switch.
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The Manley Mastering ED Stereo Variable MU Limiter Compressor has been the best selling product from Manley Laboratories for many years, and is one of the only compressors that have become a standard in Mastering studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade. The Variable Mu is a registered trademark for the limiter compressor. It works by using a "remote cut-off" or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression.
The COMPRESS mode is soft-knee 1.5 to 1 ratio while the sharper knee limit modes start at 4 to 1 and move to a more dramatic ratio of 20 to 1 with the limit is over 12dB. The knee will actually soften as more limiting is used. To create distortion simply turn up the input and turn down the output while using very little or no compression.
Just because the Variable Mu Limiter Compressor has ganged input control, does not mean that it has become mono-unfriendly. There are separate threshold and output controls to compensate. When you switch to LINK mode you really get to what the unit can do better than anything else: final mix, 2-track, or mastering limiting and compression. It really doesn't get much better than this. Get yours today at Alto Music!
MID/SIDE (a.k.a. Vertical/Lateral, or Sum/Difference)
This modification opens the door to stereo encoding and decoding as well as exciting image enhancement processing capabilities. For instance, setting to compress only the in-phase information allows the augmentation of the stereo image as the out-of-phase content is left untouched. Or, conversely, if you need a "more-mono" mix for broadcast, or vinyl-cutting for instance, you can set it to kill off more of the out-of-phase info which leaves more in-phase material in the final result. Read more about the MS Mod on page 12 of the Owner's Manual.
Total mod cost for the M-S option is $800 NET added to the base cost.
In order to add both M-S and the HP SC mods, we move the power switch to the rear panel and install both channels' HP SC switch to the center hole where the power switch was. The M-S switches then flank this switch.
