Manley Laboratories builds some of the most coveted tube preamps, compressors and mastering equipment in professional audio. Founded and led by EveAnna Manley — the Variable Mu compressor and VOXBOX channel strip are found in the world’s finest recording studios and mastering facilities. Hand-built in California, available across MENA and Turkey through MediaCast.
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THE BRAND
The tube equipment that defines what professional sounds like.
Manley Laboratories has been making reference-standard tube audio equipment in Chino, California since 1989. Under EveAnna Manley’s leadership the company has built a reputation for engineering excellence, sonic character and build quality that is genuinely unmatched in the professional audio industry.
The Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor is arguably the most imitated and most revered mastering compressor ever made — its program-dependent, tube-based gain reduction has graced the master bus of more high-profile recordings than any other single piece of outboard. The VOXBOX channel strip combines a Manley tube preamp, optical compressor, parametric EQ and de-esser in a single unit that has become the professional standard for vocal recording and processing.
Every Manley unit is hand-built to order in California, tested to exacting standards and backed by the company’s extraordinary commitment to customer support. In a world of disposable audio equipment, Manley builds tools that last decades.
THE RANGE
Preamps, compressors and mastering tools.
MASTERING COMPRESSOR
Variable Mu
The Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor is the mastering engineer’s gold standard — a tube-based, program-dependent compressor that imparts the characteristic warmth and glue that makes masters sound finished and cohesive. Found on the master bus of more acclaimed recordings than any other single processor. The stereo version is the most common mastering tool; the Stereo Variable Mu is the reference.
- Variable Mu
- Stereo Mastering
- Tube Compression
CHANNEL STRIP
VOXBOX
The Manley VOXBOX combines the most important processing stages for vocal recording in a single unit — tube microphone preamplifier, optical compressor/limiter, passive parametric equaliser and de-esser. The VOXBOX has become the standard channel strip for premium vocal recording and processing in studios that understand what the difference between adequate and exceptional actually costs.
- VOXBOX
- Tube Preamp
- Optical Comp
- EQ + De-esser
PREAMPLIFIERS
FORCE & Neo-Classic
Manley’s standalone microphone preamplifiers — the FORCE 8-channel preamp for tracking sessions, the SLAM! for mastering-grade limiting, and the Neo-Classic series for boutique tube preamplification at every budget tier. Each preamp is designed around Manley’s custom transformers and their proprietary tube circuit topology that gives Manley equipment its distinctive sonic character.
- FORCE
- SLAM
- Neo-Classic 73
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