{"product_id":"manley-langevin-mini-massive-stereo-eq-167-used","title":"Manley Langevin Mini Massive Stereo EQ #167 (Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eManley Langevin Mini-Massive\u003c\/strong\u003e is the little brother to  Manley’s Massive Passive EQ. This new EQ is based on the same passive EQ  sections as the Massive Passive’s Low Band and High Band and shares  most of the same components and circuit layout. The Mini-Massive is  smaller at only 1U high and about half the price and includes some new  features, refinements and a new level of clarity fit for mastering at  its best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHutch re-visited the 4 lowest shelf settings, and the 4  highest frequency shelf settings, plus added new higher Q bell shapes  for the 4 highest frequencies. This gives even more opportunities for  Pultec-like fatness and beyond in the deep lows. The new high frequency  curves are designed for air, sweetness and sparkle. Compared to the  Massive Passive, the toggle switch that selects between Bell and Shelf,  has become a 3 position switch, to introduce the new higher Q Bell  curves on the 4 highest frequencies. These features give the  Mini-Massive even more power and flexibility to achieve that elusive big  round tight bottom and silky atmospheric top.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mini-Massive  uses 4 of the new Manley Rapture Amplifiers for gain. These came about  in the long search for the cleanest and most musically involving gain  stage we could get and were originally intended for a cost-no-object  digital \/ analog converter. These are further augmented by both series  and shunt power supply regulators, to provide a refined low noise power  supply. Like the Massive Passive, huge headroom is available and the  Mini will output +30 dBv balanced into 50 ohms. And rather than using  unstable cross-coupled outputs to drive balanced or unbalanced loads,  the Mini-Massive can accommodate balanced, or unbalanced +4, or  unbalanced –10 loads, and each one is always driven optimally. It plays  well with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd for those who would prefer transformer  outputs, there is an option for the same transformers as in the Massive  Passive. These can add a subtle degree of warmth and smoothness by  themselves. A 3-way toggle on the back panel (IRON) not only allows  those with the transformer option, to bypass the transformer, or to use  the transformers, or to force them into a more vintage-like flavor for  even more fat and aggressive colors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, for those who  want a Mono 4-band EQ only need to patch the output of Channel 1 into  the input of Channel 2. The low band ends at 1K and the high band begins  at 560. Shelf frequencies still go that far and still offer dramatic  curves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mini-Massive is the EQ for those who consider the  Massive Passive too big, too expensive, or too colored or maybe not the  first choice for extreme lows or extreme highs. The Massive Passive was  designed to be a tube EQ with character and with the creative potential  of forgotten passive techniques. The Mini-Massive is a clean, lean  machine, with the same EQ performance, and then some, where we wanted it  most. And like the Massive Passive, it cannot be the one EQ appropriate  for anything and everything (there is no such device), but it will be  the first choice EQ for most things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manley Labs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44449565081703,"sku":"34339","price":1300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/8848\/5479\/files\/used_manley_langevin_mini_massive_stereo_eq__167_cat_c27c18f6-877f-4c63-9972-b7703537d26e.jpg?v=1787089481","url":"https:\/\/vintageking.mom\/products\/manley-langevin-mini-massive-stereo-eq-167-used","provider":"Vintage King","version":"1.0","type":"link"}