September News from Manley Laboratories

– First, A Note from EveAnna Manley –

September 2018 marks my 50th Birthday and the Manley brand’s 30th Anniversary. Also, let’s give a Happy One Year Birthday celebration to our Manley Reference Silver Microphone – now nominated for a TEC Award!

There’s a lot of innovation in this newest Manley creation starting with its power supply, a smaller version of our hugely successful and proven reliable Switch Mode Power Supply used in all of our latest products for the last several years (CORE, FORCE, NuMu, and ELOP+). We have a real technology edge with this dedicated high voltage supply custom designed for us by Bruno Putzeys and is team. It’s efficient, “green” if you will, lighter, all regulated, and super-quiet. This results in “blacker blacks” and speedy presentation of the music. It also auto-senses incoming mains voltage and works everywhere in the world. Most important is it wins the sonic shootouts every time. Our new SMPS sounds better than the older linear power supplies of yesteryear. And that’s the bottom line.

The “top” of the Ref Silver Mic is David Jospehson’s excellent take on the ol’ SONY C3 capsule. I first encountered this capsule when Aspen Pittman of Groove Tubes fame had reached frustration trying to get his dream capsule built in So Cal by “another guy” (R.I.P.). Aspen sent me some parts to look at asking for help. I suggested to Aspen that he contact David Josephson who had been building our Manley Gold Mic capsules for many years. “DJ” ended up creating this capsule for the GT MD3 and MD3A microphones.

Those mics are long out of production now so when I was day dreaming about creating a new tube microphone, I remembered that this unique capsule design was really only being used in current production in the (solid-state) Josephson C715. I contacted DJ and got a capsule to play with and my team worked up a superb modern tube mic around this capsule and using our amazing switching power supply. The end result is a rich middle “character” mic with a beautifully tamed upper frequency register which makes it a natural in front of an electric guitar cabinet, overhead drums, on snares and toms, and in front of sooooo many vocalists, females, for sure, and horns, and with guys who have kind of scratchy throat noises that might be overly accentuated by more airy microphones. Give it a go! It’s a very versatile and impressively handsome creation of ours.

Cheers,
EveAnna

REFERENCE SILVER MIC VIDEO

Taking inspiration from the fabled Sony C-37A, Manley Labs introduces the Manley Reference Silver Microphone – now nominated for a TEC Award! Featuring an American-built capsule by David Josephson and a Manley-designed circuit, this microphone has a warm, rich tone and a TON of character.

STREAM FROM OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL

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OUR NEW SHARED CONTENT DRIVE IS NOW READY

We’ve finished porting over all our photos, videos, logos and more to a shiny new Google Drive. All product images are organized in PRO and HIFI folders, sorted by SKU code, with both high-res TIFFs and screen-res JPEGs & PNGs for just about everything.

We’ve also got a selection of photos from the factory, advertisement / banner artwork, our official logos, and of course all the new videos we’re making. Feel free to share these links with your dealers, and make sure everything’s updated as needed.

If you think there’s something missing, or if you need help finding something in particular, let us know!

https://bit.ly/ManleyDrive

One section of our new Manley Drive is dedicated to advertisement & banner examples for your websites (and your dealer websites!). Here’s an example featuring Manley’s “New Classics” – feel free to edit these for your own language and use them to spread the word about Manley’s latest gear.

ZIMA PRODUKTION (SWEDEN)

One of our very oldest distributors is Zima Produktion in Sweden, headed up by Robert Zima.

“In 1992, what made me choose Manley was the Reference Cardioid and Gold mics – and also the Mono Variable Mu and ELOP limiter. Being a distributor for Manley has been very easy because of the devotion that customers have shown for the product all these years.No other brand in my portfolio has the same continuity of sales over such a long time.”

Fun fact: Even though Zima has been distributing Manley Labs since 1992, he’s been playing in a progressive rock band even longer: since 1971! The band still plays around the world with the original lineup – and if you want to see them, they’re booked to play a festival in Seattle, WA in June 2019…

https://zima.se