High Voltage = High Headroom = High Fidelity.
From America's leading manufacturer of high-end studio equipment, Manley FORCE contains four channels of real, high-voltage tube microphone preamps drawn from the immensely popular and award-winning Manley CORE®, housed in an exquisitely beautiful and meticulously crafted chassis. hand in California. .
A FORCE OF NATURE.
Your relationship with the FORCE begins with the ergonomic dashboard through its carefully arranged controls, silky, bulletproof rotary potentiometers, positive locking feature switches, and convenient 1/4" direct input connectors. The LED metering of seven lanes for each channel provides instant visible feedback for enhanced audio levels with dual-insert CNC-milled details A feast for the eyes, yes, we know this is investment quality audio gear that you will be so proud of. to display it in their studio as we do to manufacture it here in Southern California.
A FORCE Sonic Tour.
Your microphone signals enter through gold-plated XLR connectors directly into our MANLEY IRON® Mic input transformer. Your line-level or instrument-level guitars and keyboards enter through the front-panel 10 megOhm Hi-Z jacks before reaching the input level control, which also acts as a variable input pad. reverse phase and 120 Hz high pass can be invoked here in the circuit and then we enter the 12AX7 dual triode amplifier stage operating in pure Class A, of course The amount of GAIN for each channel can be selected as 40dB or 50dB through the. front panel switches An additional 10dB of gain is available via internal jumpers The output stage “can drive a truck”, as we like to brag.
The MANLEY POWER® power supply is an innovative design developed specifically for Manley Labs, specifically for high voltage valves and specifically for audio by the worldwide team of experts in this technology led by Bruno Putzeys. Proven to be reliable and sonically superior to the Manley CORE®, this power supply provides 300 Volt DC rails to run the vacuum tubes, robust 6 Volt lines to power them, along with several other voltage rails for phantom power and various controls. solid state. tensions. High Voltage = High Headroom, folks. You won't come close to this sonic performance in any 500 series design. Trust us. This is Full FORCE audio excellence that starts with this superior power supply. All lines are importantly regulated, low impedance, efficient and super quiet in this low radiation, high frequency design. The universal mains input accepts any voltage or frequency from anywhere in the world, making traveling with FORCE much easier.
A force to be reckoned with.
How do we deliver all of this for just $3,000? Prioritizing what really matters: that strong Manley sound, proven components and rugged, over-built construction, presented in an inspiring package. But designed to build efficiently and really paying attention to how everything works, proudly built by Manley's American workFORCE. A convincing FORCE for you. This is our Driving FORCE. Let us share it with you.
7-segment LED peak measurement
Selectable gain, LOW vs HIGH
120Hz High Pass Filter Switch
Phase Inversion Switch
48V Phantom Power Switch
Input attenuator (variable pad)
Silent input level control (variable input pad)
1/4" DIRECT INPUT
Similar to the DI in the Manley SLAM!®, and exactly the same as that found in the Manley CORE®, this fully discrete solid state circuit with 10 Meg Ohm input impedance is perfect for guitars, basses, keyboards, etc.
- Vacuum tubes: 4 double triodes 12AX7WA
- Balanced transformer-coupled XLR microphone input impedance: 1250 Ohms
- Unbalanced 1/4" Direct Input Impedance: 10 Meg Ohm
- Maximum microphone input (low gain setting): -5 dBu or 435mV RMS at 0.5% THD
- Maximum microphone input (high gain setting): -25 dBu or 44mV 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 output (1kHz sine, at 100 kOhm load, 0.1% THD+N: +35 dBu
- Maximum output (1kHz sine, at 100 kOhm load, 0.1% THD+N: 43V RMS
- Maximum output (1kHz sinusoidal, at 600 Ohm load, 0.1% THD+N): +22 dBm
- High current WFDRIVE balanced output impedance: 50 Ohms
- Output headroom (referenced to +4 dBu): 31 dB
- Dynamic range: 118 dB at low gain, 100 dB at high gain
- THD and noise (1Khz @ +4dBu BW 22Hz-22KHz): 0.004% at low gain setting
- THD and noise (1Khz @ +4dBu BW 22Hz-22KHz): 0.04% in Hi Gain setting
- Noise floor microphone (A WGT): -85dB @ LOW GAIN, -66dB @ HI GAIN
- Signal-to-noise ratio (Ref. for +4dBu): 87dB @ LOW GAIN, 68dB @ HI GAIN
- EIN (22-22kHz BW, A WGT): -129dB at 150 Ohm source impedance @ LO GAIN
- Frequency response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz -0.1dB, +0.3 dB
- Gain via microphone input: 40 LOW or 50dB HI GAIN (60dB available via internal jumper)
- Gain via line input: 20 or 30dB (40dB available via internal jumper)
- Low signal green LED (output level): -22 dBu
- High signal red LED (output level): +24 dBu
- AUTOMUTE warm-up delay: 30 seconds
- Power consumption: 36 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: 8.6 pounds.
- Shipping weight: 11.8 pounds.
