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Manley CORE
Art.-Nr.: MCORE
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During decades of success, Manley Labs’ products have evolved from purist audiophile vacuum tube designs to professional audio products. As the company has grown, so has the respect their products have garnered in the pro-audio marketplace. The company’s design philosophies have been proven through years of real-world experience. Many of Manley's high-quality, modern components are produced in house. Manley Labs’ 11,000 sq. ft. facility houses a machine shop, audio transformer winding, engraving, and wire harness prepping operations. All custom design, R&D, assembly, testing, and quality control processes are performed with precision and pride at the Manley factory located in Chino, California, just 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Proudly, all Manley products are built in the USA.

Overview

Reference Channel Strip

Building upon its 25-year legacy producing revered recording studio equipment, Manley Labs has distilled its CORE technologies from this lineage. 2014 delivers the Manley CORE®, an innovative channel strip that combines Manley’s Greatest Hits with fresh technology. The remarkably intuitive front panel combines musical and forgiving circuitry that allows the musician to concentrate on his performance instead of being lost in a sea of knobs. Ease of use and intelligently chosen operating points make it virtually impossible to cut a bad sounding track!

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.

Product Details

  • Easy to use and awesome-sounding channel strip based on the award-winning VOXBOX
  • Class A tube mic preamplifier with Manley's hand-wound transformers
  • Direct input uses the same circuit as the Manley SLAM! for direct-instrument recordings of guitar, bass and keyboards
  • ELOP compressor with 3:1 ratio tames any signal transparently
  • Baxandall EQ with low/high shelving and sweepable mid for flexible sonic sculpting
  • Fast attack FET brickwall limiter ensures you don't clip your converters during recording
  • Flexible analog metering can display input, output, and compressor gain reduction levels
Microphone Input Impedance
1250 Ohms, transformer balanced XLR
Line Input Impedance
10 kOhms, balanced XLR
Direct Input Impedance
10 Meg Ohm, unbalanced jack
Direct Output Impedance
50 Ohms, balanced XLR
Compressor gain reduction (max)
16 dB
Compressor
attack time: 5msec to 60msec, release time: 100msec to 1.5s
Limiter
attack time: 155μsec, Release time: 2.3 msec to 300 msec
Input level, Line input (max)
-8 dBu (High Gain Setting), +13 dBu (Low Gain Setting)
Input level, Mic input (max)
-25 dBu (High Gain Setting), -5 dBu (Low Gain Setting)
Input level, Direct input (max)
+17 dBu (High Gain Setting), +24 dBu (Low Gain Setting)
Input level, Insert Return (max)
+20 dBu
Output level, Preamp / Insert Send (max)
+35 dBu
Output level, Main (max)
+20 dBu
Output impedance, Insert Send
50 Ohms
Input impedance, Insert Return
13 kOhms
Output Impedance, Main
50 Ohms
Dynamic Range
>90 dB
Frequency Response
10 Hz to 75 kHz -0.15dB, -0.5 dB
Metering
Preamp outut, Main output, Compressor Gain Reduction
THD (1kHz @ +4 dBm)
0.02% at Low Gain setting
Noise Floor Insert Return to OP2
- 90dBu BW: 22Hz - 22kHz
Noise Floor Micpre (A WGT)
- 84dB @ LOW GAIN, -64dB HI GAIN
EIN (A WGT)
-124dB with 150 Ohm source impedance
Microphone Input gain
40 LOW or 60 dB HI GAIN
Line Input gain
20 or 40dB
EQ & Limiter section gain (max)
10 dB
AUTOMUTE warmup delay
30 seconds
Power consumption
35 Watts
Mains voltage
90 to 254 VAC / 50~60Hz (internal universal supply)
Dimensions (W x H x D)
483 x 89 x 254 mm (19” / 2U)
Weight
3.8 kg
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