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Product Description
The Manley Langevin Mini-Massive is the little brother to Manleys Massive Passive EQ. This new EQ is based on the same passive EQ sections as the Massive Passives 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 includes some new features, refinements and a new level of clarity fit for mastering at its best.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.
The Mini-Massive uses 4 of the new Manley Rapture Amplifiers for gain. 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 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.
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.
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. 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.