Building on its 25-year legacy of producing revered recording studio equipment; Manley Labs distilled its core technologies from this lineage. 2014 delivered Manley CORE, an innovative channel that combines Manley's greatest hits with new technology.
The incredibly intuitive front panel combines musical and forgiving circuitry that allows the musician to focus on their performance rather than getting lost in a sea of buttons. The ease of use and intelligently chosen operating points make it virtually impossible to cut through a bad soundtrack!
Manley's experience and vision working with the industry's best recording engineers and musicians culminate in CORE. At this price, there is no other channel with greater headroom or more seductive sound than the CORE. Handcrafted in the USA, built like a tank, built to last, the epicenter of your engraved 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 amplification stage is the latest implementation of our famous Class A circuit topology found in the VOXBOX® and Manley Dual Mono and Mono microphone preamps. This all-triode vacuum tube circuit runs on a regulated 300 Volt B+ supply, providing enormous headroom and relentless output drive capability.
FRONT PANEL CONTROLS + DIRECT INPUT
48V Phantom Power Switch
120Hz High Pass Filter Switch
Phase Inversion Switch
Input attenuator (variable pad)
Microphone preselectable gain 40dB or 60dB
Selectable line amplifier gain 20dB or 40dB
DIRECT IN: Similar to the DI in Manley SLAM!®, this fully discrete solid state circuit with 10 Meg Ohm input impedance is perfect for guitars, basses, keyboards, etc.
Featuring our successful ELOP® technology also found in our famous Manley VOXBOX®
The compressor is exclusively before the mic preamp, making it virtually impossible to clip
Ratio 3:1
Continuously variable attack, release and limit controls
Silent Bypass Switch
Low and high Baxandall shelves (80Hz and 12kHz) with ±12dB range
Sweepable mid-range buzzer EQ (100Hz – 1kHz) or (1kHz – 10kHz) with ±10dB range
Fast attack FET brickwall limiter
Continuously variable limit and release controls
Peak Limit LED Indicator
10dB range output gain control
Large illuminated analog display
The 3-way meter selection switch shows compressor gain reduction, Micpre output level, and main output audio levels.
Balanced XLR microphone input
Balanced XLR line input
Direct 1/4" instrument input on front panel
Insert point between mic preamp and EQ/Limiter via ¼” TRS jack
Balanced XLR direct output (after Preamp/Compressor section)
Balanced XLR main output
Deluxe 1/4" thick CNC-machined faceplate with laser-etched inserts adorn the rigid 2U steel chassis - all locally sourced in Southern California.
- ALL-TUBE preamp 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
- High current drive Direct XLR output impedance: 50 Ohms
- Silent Conductive Plastic Input Attenuator
- Microphone preamp high-pass filter starting at 120 Hz with 6dB/8va slope
- Maximum Compressor GAIN REDUCTION: 16 dB
- Compressor ATTACK Time: 60ms slower counterclockwise, 30ms at 12:00, 5ms faster CW for 6dB compression
- Compressor release time: 1.5s slower counterclockwise, 1s at 12:00, 100ms faster CW from 6dB compression
- Maximum microphone input (low gain setting): -5 dBu or 435mV RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum microphone input (high gain setting): -25 dBu or 44 mV RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum input line input (low gain setting): +13 dBu or 3.5 V RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum input line input (high gain setting): -8 dBu or 300mV RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum direct input (low gain setting): +24 dBu or 12V RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum direct input (high gain setting): +17 dBu or 5.5 V RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum input insertion feedback: +20 dBu or 7.8 V RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum preamp output (insert send): +35 dBu or 43V RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum preamp output (insert send): +22 dBu into 600 Ohms
- Maximum main output: +20 dBu
- Insert Send Output Impedance: 50 Ohms
- Enter 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
- The meters switch to read the direct output (1) of the preamp, the output (2) of the main output, or the gain reduction of the compressor
- THD and noise (1kHz @ +4 dBm): 0.02% at low gain setting
- Noise floor (minimum set gain): -70 dB typical bandwidth
- Gain via microphone input: 40 or 60 dB
- Gain via line input: 20 or 40dB
- Maximum gain of the EQ and Limiter section: 10 dB
- AUTOMUTE warm-up delay: 30 seconds
- Power consumption: 35 watts
- Operating mains voltage: 90 to 254 VAC (internal universal power supply)
- Mains voltage frequency: 50-60 Hz
- Dimensions: 19" x 3 1/2" x 7" (occupies 2u)
- Unit weight: 8.3 pounds.
- Shipping weight: 11.5 pounds.
