Manley Stereo Variable Mu Limiter Compressor with T-Bar - 30th Anniversary Edition

The Manley Stereo Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor is the glue that holds your mix together while crystallizing it into a professional, final product. It takes your track from song, to record. An all-tube, all transformer, all-American legend. And now, it’s time to celebrate its 30th year on the planet with a limited edition T-Bar XXX version that offers ten critically tested tubes and four custom wound transformers—everything you love about the Variable Mu, with the expanded superpower of extreme limiting. This mod makes the Variable Mu even smoother when pushed past 6dB of compression. Using two matched 6BA6 pentodes strapped as triodes makes this choice better than an unobtainable and unsortable 6386. Only 50 units are available, handcrafted from the engineers at Manley—to you.

FEATURES:

• Manley input and output transformers with pure nickel laminations in mu-metal case with flat frequency response
• 20 Hz - 25 kHz frequency response
• Balanced inputs & outputs
• Independently regulated B+ and heater supplies
• Includes HP sidechain modification as standard
• Hard-wire bypass switch
• Silent conductive plastic input attenuator
• Recovery 5 steps: 0.2s, 0.4s, 0.6s, 4sec., 8sec. (Not a 12-step recovery)
• Variable attack: 25msec - 70msec
• Continuously variable threshold
• Switch for limit or compress modes
• Front panel mounted meter adjust
• Limit (4:1 to 20:1) or compress (1.5:1)
• Large illuminated sifam meters
• Stereo link switch
• Maximum gain: 35 dB
• <0.1% THD @ 1 kHz Noise floor: -85 dB typical
• Max. output +30 dBm (26 V RMS) 26 dB Headroom
• Power consumption (120/240 VAC): 80 watts
• Dimensions: 19" x 3.5" x 10" (occupies 2u)
• Shipping weight: 23 lb