Overview

Stereo Tube Limiter Compressor with T-Bar Option

The Stereo Manley Variable Mu® Limiter Compressor is the glue that holds your mix together while crystallizing it into a professional, final product. It takes your track from song, to record. An all-tube, all transformer, all-American legend. And now, it’s time to celebrate its 30th year on the planet with a limited edition T-Bar XXX version that offers ten critically tested tubes and four custom wound transformers—everything you love about the Variable Mu, with the expanded superpower of extreme limiting. This mod makes the Variable Mu even smoother when pushed past 6dB of compression. Using two matched 6BA6 pentodes strapped as triodes makes this choice better than an unobtainable and unsortable 6386. Only 50 units are available, handcrafted from the engineers at Manley—to you.

Product Details

  • Limited Edition of the Manley Variable Mu® Limiter Compressor with T-Bar option
  • Stereo Fairchild 670-type Limiter Compressor
  • Fully differential ALL-TUBE circuitry using 2x 6BA6, 5751 (or 12AX7), 7044 (or 5687), & 12AL5 per channel
  • MANLEY input & output transformers with nickel laminations in mu-metal cases with flat frequency response from 20Hz-25KHz
  • Stepped switch Dual-input attenuator
  • Stereo and dual-mono mode
  • Soft-knee Compression (1.5:1) or limiting (4:1 to 20:1)
  • 100 Hz High Pass Side Chain Filter (selectable)
  • Hard-wire bypass
  • Large Sifam VU meter gain reduction
Input/output transformers
MANLEY nickel laminations transformes in mu-metal cases
Frequency response
20Hz-25KHz
Input impdance
600 ohms
Output impdance
600 ohms
Tubes
2x 6BA6, 5751 (or 12AX7), 7044 (or 5687), & 12AL5 per channel
Recorvery time
5 steps: 0.2sec, 0.4sec 0.6sec, 4sec, 8sec
Attack time
25msec - 70msec
Ratio
LIMIT (4:1 to 20:1) or COMPRESS (1.5:1)
High Pass Side Chain Filter
-3dB @ 100Hz
VU meter
Large illuminated Sifam VU meters for output or gain reduction
Maximum gain
35dB
Noise floor (< 0.1% THD @ 1KHz)
-85dB typical
Mains Voltage
100V, 120V or 220-240VAC / 50~60Hz (with different transformers)
Power Consumption (120/240VAC)
80 watts
Dimensions (W x H x D)
483 x 89 x 343 mm (19” / 2U)
Weight
6.4 kg