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Manley Stereo ELOP Electro-Optical Compressor/Limiter - Used

The Manley ELOP is a tracking staple for the studio. Its quick grab tames vocals while the gentle slow release characteristic keeps it natural like a hand on a fader. Unique for this type of limiter,...

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The ELOP is one of those processors that offers beauty in both sound and simplicity of design. With only two main controls (Make Up Gain and Gain Reduction) it’s pretty hard to mess this limiter up. Because of this and it's relatively fast attack (for an electro-optical limiter), the ELOP is one of the best options I’ve used when tracking vocals, guitars, and bass. There it serves as a smooth and responsive audio leveler by effortlessly controlling louder peaks, resulting in a more even and full performance with a touch of Manley’s famous tube polish.

Oh, and don’t let the “limiter” title scare you. While having a higher ratio that technically qualifies as limiting, the applications where you’d use ELOP overlap with where you’d use a traditional compressor, as opposed to solely mix buss or mastering purposes. Meticulous detail went into designing the ELOP to be a powerful yet forgiving and easy to use box - essentially it’d take some serious determination to make the ELOP sound bad!

This particular unit has recently been evaluated by the manufacturer and returned to premium working condition.

From Manley Laboratories Inc

Set it and forget it! Our ELOP® Limiters make your job easy. The principle of operation is based around using a rectified sample of the audio to shine an LED (Light Emitting Diode) onto an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor). The photo-resistor in combination with a fixed resistor simply act as a changing voltage divider to attenuate the signal-- like a smart volume control. A similar principle was found in the older **Teletronix & Urei **LA-2A, LA-3, and LA-4 units which used a slower electro-luminescent panel-light on a conventional LDR encased in a light-tight enclosure. Ours uses modern VACTROL technology (but with a trick!) for exact sample-to-sample tracking and no high frequency loss while digging deep into limiting-- problems commonly associated with older LA-series limiters and other opto-based units.

The audio signal passes only through our super-clean single-ended vacuum tube line amplifiers in the Manley unit, and through all-discrete Class A amplifiers in the Langevin version. Each channel can be run separately or switched to stereo - link . Due to their inherently quick attack, these Electro-Optical Limiters are skilled soldiers for tracking vocals or individual instruments, although now with the addition of a very useful sidechain high-pass filter that can switch between 100Hz or 200Hz (or OUT) to allow the limiter to ignore heavy bass lines, the ELOP® limiter is proving more useful for modern urban music where you dont want the limiter only responding to the loudest thing i.e., the BIG bass. If you want the bass line to leave the rest of the mix alone, then this switch is for you!

SPECIAL MASTERING VERSIONS AVAILABLE TO ORDER

Mastering versions of any of our limiters and equalizers incorporating detented and logable 1/2dB steps built with 1% metal film resistors on sealed gold-contact Grayhill switches may be custom ordered for an additional $500 NET per channel. Normal units may not be converted.

ALL-TUBE audio path 12AU7WA + 6414 per ch.
Unbalanced 1/4" Inputs And Outputs and...
Balanced Transformer Coupled XLR Inputs And Outputs
Hi-current drive <50 Ohm 1/4" & XLR outputs
Silent conductive plastic INPUT attenuators
Max. GAIN REDUCTION 22dB
ATTACK time: 10mS for 6dB GR
RELEASE: 2.5 Seconds for 6dB GR
Maximum Input (Bypass through Line Amplifier) +30 dBv (with Limit "IN" the maximum is entirely variable)
Maximum Output +30 dBv
Headroom (referenced to +4 dBv) 26 dB
Frequency Response: 10 Hz to 70 kHz ±0.5 dB
BYPASS switches and AUTOMUTE w/warmup delay
Large ILLUMINATED Sifam VU METERS (older units before serial number MELOPB716 shipped before 6/2003 use: 26V 1.2W FESTOON LAMPS; Manley's Part Number: VAR016B) Order spare bulbs using our parts order form. (newest units after serial number MELOPB716 shipped after 6/2003 use yellow LED lighting)
Meters switch to read OUTPUT or REDUCTION
STEREO LINK
Side-Chain High-Pass Filter 100Hz or 200Hz
THD & Noise (1kHz @ +4 dBm): .015%
Noise Floor (Gain set to minimum): -80 dB Wideband
Signal to Noise Ratio: 126 dB typical
Maximum gain: 15 dB
Power consumption: 40 watts
Operating mains voltage: Units are purpose built for original destination country's mains voltage: 100V, 120V, or 220-240VAC as indicated on the serial number badge. Power transformer must be replaced in order to change mains operating voltage. 120VAC units may NOT be rewired to put the primaries of the power transformer in series for 220-240V operation or a large radiated field of hum will develop. If changing locations/voltages, the power transformer must be replaced with the dedicated one for the voltage at which it will operate.
Mains Voltage Frequency: 50~ 60Hz
Dimensions: 19" x 3 1/2" x 10" (occupies 2u)
Shipping weight: 16 lbs

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