CORE

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.

The signal enters through our renowned hand-wound MANLEY IRON® input transformer with nickel laminations in a mu-metal can. The tube amplifying stage is the latest implementation of our famous Class-A circuit topology found in the VOXBOX® and Manley Dual Mono & Mono Microphone Preamplifiers. This all-triode vacuum tube circuit runs on a regulated 300 Volt B+ supply yielding huge headroom and relentless output drive capability.

Features:

• Easy to use reference-grade channel strip based on Manley’s award-winning VOXBOX
• Class A tube mic preamplifier with Manley’s hand-wound transformers
• Direct input uses a similar circuit as the Manley SLAM! for fantastic DI recordings
• ELOP compressor with 3:1 ratio tames any signal transparently
• Baxandall EQ with low/high shelving and sweepable mids for flexible, flattering sound sculpting
• Fast attack FET brickwall limiter continuously variable threshold and release controls
• Flexible metering can display input, output, and compressor gain reduction levels
• Balanced XLR mic and line inputs; front-panel 1/4″ DI
• 1/4″ TRS insert point between mic pre and EQ/limiter
• Balanced XLR direct output (after preamp/compressor section)
• Balanced XLR main output
• 2U steel chassis with CNC-machined 1/4″-thick faceplate
• Handcrafted in USA to Manley’s exacting quality standards