Manley SLAM!

The ELOP® LIMITER: Our beloved Electro-Optical Levelling Amplifier circuit, the ELOP®, still the favorite for vocal tracking, shows up here with its new switchable side-chain high pass filter making it much more useful for mixes and other tracks as well. One of the most appreciated aspects of our original ELOP® is the simplicity of a two knob limiter, which is optimum for demanding pro recording pressures. You can still grab two knobs and have complete control of level and dynamics and be ready to hit that record button. Intuitive controls and a straight ahead signal path through quality components simply works. The FET LIMITER: Here’s a new fast FET based "brick wall" limiter that spans the range of clean predictable limiting to the grunge and gravel that other FET based limiters are desired for. The FET RELEASE control allows you to dial up a variety of colors. There is even a "CLIP" setting that provides as round a shape as has ever been available. We aimed at "sound" first, then experimented with circuits until we heard what we wanted discovering fresh approaches that provide a very wide range of useful dynamic control. For example, you can set up for a fast brick wall limiter with slower releases for minimum artifacts, or go with the faster releases to get some crunch and then get extreme loudness. The Attack control is unusual too providing the sonic control common with its historic brothers but very unusually retaining the zero overshoot “none-shall-pass” brick wall that defines a real limiter. And it’s punchy! As the saying goes, “Louder is better.” The SLAM! optimizes levels to analog to digital converters with ballz, warmth and loudness verging on silly or just clean and safe. The two full size real VU meters show you the raw input levels, the final output levels, and the ELOP® Limiter gain reduction in the traditionally preferred format for visually displaying apparent loudness. VU’s are cool. Noticing how mastering engineers often need a switchable pad on their VU's because the "optimised" levels tend to pin the needles in the red, the SLAM! VU’s also have a 0, -3dB, -6dB switch to help with this situation. There are also very fast and super accurate multi-color LED ladder peak meters that display the input and output levels and the FET gain reduction, and some combinations. They will do Peak, Peak Hold timed, and Peak Hold until reset, and also allow you to manually set where the individual bars change colors to match your other gear. And with maximum clean I/O levels of +30 dBu, it is a lot more likely you will use these meters to see what’s clipping downstream. It probably won’t be the Manley tube line drivers inside! • Output Tubes: 2 x 6414W NOS USA dual triodes • MANLEY transformer coupled Balanced Inputs and Outputs • Micpre: Selectable 48V phantom power and PHASE REVERSE • Gain: 60dB max Micpre, 43dB max DI, 20dB max Limiter Gain • Input Impedance: 2000? Micpre, 1Meg? DI • FET Attack approx. 100uS; Release 10mS to 2Sec; Ratio: better than 20:1 • ELOP Attack approx. 10mS for 6dB GR; Release 2.5 Sec; Ratio: 10:1 • AES 24Bit 192KHz upsampling from 44.1, 48, 88.2, & 96KHz • A to D 24Bit 96KHz (for now) • Frequency Response: 5Hz to 60KHz • Maximum Output : +32dBm, +30dBm (into 1K? load) • THD+N <.05% @ 1KHz Dynamic Range: 115dB typical • Output Impedance: 200? • Power Consumption (120/240 VAC): less than 100 watts (we think) • Size 19” X 12” X 3.5” (occupies 2u)