Manley Variable Mu Stereo Tube Compressor / Limiter
In perfect working order. Great overall condition with some light scratches, rack rash and general marks commensurate with age and use. No original box or accessories included.
The Manley Variable MU® Limiter Compressor has been Manley’s best selling product for many years. It is one of the very few compressors that has become a real standard in studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade and probably the next. “”Mu”” is tube-speak for gain, and Variable Mu® is Manley’s registered trademark for this limiter compressor. It works by using the “”remote cut-off”” or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression. The precious vintage Fairchild 670 also uses this technique and is one of few all-tube compressor to do so, that we know of. Even the side-chain has glowing rectifier bottles. How’s it work? The unique 5670 dual triode is at the center of the peak-reducing and compression action constantly being re-biased by the vacuum tube rectified side-chain control voltages which cause this tube to smoothly change its gain. Just like that.