Flexible without being intimidating, the COREs strength flows from its Class A high-voltage tube micpre and ELOP Compressor, into its sweepable mid EQ with high and low shelves, and is focused by a fast brick-wall FET limiter. Drill to the CORE! Building upon its 25-year legacy producing revered recording studio equipment; Manley Labs has distilled its core technologies from this lineage. 2014 delivered 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. 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. SPECIFICATIONS ALL-TUBE preamplifier audio path using 1 x 12AX7 for gain and 1 x 6922 White Follower Balanced Transformer Coupled XLR Microphone Input Impedance: 1200 Ohms Balanced XLR Line Input Impedance: 10 kOhms Unbalanced 1/4" Direct Input Impedance: 10 Meg Ohm Hi-current drive Direct XLR output Impedance: 50 Ohms Silent conductive plastic INPUT attenuator Microphone preamp high pass filter starting at 120Hz with a 6dB/8va slope Compressor Maximum GAIN REDUCTION: 16 dB Compressor ATTACK time: 60ms slowest CCW, 30ms at 12:00, 5ms fastest CW for 6dB compression Compressor RELEASE time: 1.5s slowest CCW, 1s at 12:00, 100ms fastest CW from 6dB compression Maximum Input Mic input (Low Gain Setting): -5 dBu or 435mV RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Input Mic input (High Gain Setting): -25 dBu or 44 mV RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Input Line input (Low Gain Setting): +13 dBu or 3.5V RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Input Line input (High Gain Setting): -8 dBu or 300mV RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Input Direct input (Low Gain Setting): +24 dBu or 12V RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Input Direct input (High Gain Setting): +17 dBu or 5.5V RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Input Insert return: +20 dBu or 7.8V RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Preamp Output (Insert Send): +35 dBu or 43V RMS @ 0.5% THD Maximum Preamp Output (Insert Send): +22 dBu into 600 Ohms Maximum Main Output: +20 dBu Insert Send output impedance: 50 Ohms Insert Return input impedance: 13 kOhms Main Output Impedance: 50 Ohms Direct Output Headroom (referenced to +4 dBv): 31 dB Main Output Headroom (referenced to +4 dBv): 16 dB Dynamic Range: >90 dB Frequency Response: 10 Hz to 20 kHz ±0.5 dB Large LED illuminated VU METER Meters switch to read Direct Output (1) from preamp, Output (2) from Main Out, or Compressor Gain Reduction THD & Noise (1kHz @ +4 dBm): 0.02% at Low Gain setting Noise Floor (Gain set to minimum): -70 dB wideband typical Gain via Microphone Input: 40 or 60 dB Gain via Line Input: 20 or 40dB Maximum Gain of EQ & Limiter section: 10 dB AUTOMUTE warmup delay: 30 Seconds Power consumption: 35 watts Operating mains voltage: 90 to 254 VAC (internal universal supply) Mains Voltage Frequency: 50-60Hz Dimensions: 19" x 3 1/2" x 7" (occupies 2u) Unit Weight: 8.3 lbs. Shipping weight: 11.5 lbs.
