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Manley Labs Stereo Variable Mu
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Published on 10/03/07 at 06:42
Compressor / Limiter studio PRO, used on many hits for over 20 years.
It is analog. The technology of variable MU is unique and only with the Fairchild 670 used this technique.
Basically the idea is to use the relaxation of the tube To determine the degree of compression. It is a soft knee (the action is transparent). It is rack mountable, big and heavy, built like a tank.
He may of rglages is frustrating.

UTILIZATION

In this area it is very simple. There is only one thing: compression / limiting the signal. So little rglages 6 no recovery, attack, gain and threshold ...
One wonders, or will the need to pay 3000 EUR to buy it.

SOUND QUALITY

3000 EUR to justify it must cost. Simply magical.
It is not my opinion only one compressor is also a sound enhancer. You spend any of your songs dedant and it sounds serious. Determines impossible to exactly why. It changes everything, the bass sound more pchuent the acute are distinct, the medium you jump in the face.
I make music for a long time and I have seen the compressor, the Manley Variable Mu is the caviar of mastering. All Michael Jackson dedant pass. It is a wonder of your songs. So yes it has little option but we must listen to understand.

OVERALL OPINION

It is rare to say without fear of being wrong that a device is the best in its class. Yet in the case of the latter. Manley saw the socity and sell for 20 years, but try to entrouver a hand!
When you have one, you keep it. Or is that adcid of stopping to make music.

Note: This notice applies to the first version of the Variable MU (with 6386 lamps). The latest version is more transparent and do not have that particular color. The problem is that these lamps are now ending for it ... disparatre n'ey will be more at all ...