Manley SLAM! Manuel d'utilisateur

OWNER’S MANUAL MANLEYSLAM! Stereo Limiter And Micpre rev3/11/11cd

METERING The SLAM! has some very comprehensive metering. If you skip this section, you’ll be back here with the yellow highlighter pen, once you start

THIS PAGE IS IN COLOR PDF FORMAT AT <www.manleylabs.com/PdF/SLAMLED.pdf>PEAK HOLDTOTAL GRFET +OPTOADDEDMAX GR(peak hold)MODE 2 GR Toggle UPTOTA

VU METERS Two toggles are used for the VU meters. One is used to select whether the VUs display Input Level (after the Input Pot), Output Level, or th

LIMITERS The rst compressors we know of used special tubes designed for radio and gain control. These are the “remote cut-off” type like the 6386 as

‘Hyper-Compression’ The word ‘Hyper-compression’ is a word mastering engineers use and was coined by Lynn Fuston (Mastering Web Board, DSD vs 96/24).

Which brings up the rst thing last. The traditional way to have loudness, dynamics, excitement and smoothness all at the same time is with that ol

At this writing, there has been a very disturbing trend in CD mastering to apply levels of audio processing to CDs formerly only used by “aggressively

XLR PIN 1CIRCUIT GNDCHASSIS GNDTRANSPARABREAKBREAKPARACHASSIS GNDXLR PIN 1CIRCUIT GNDTRANS641412AT7STEREO LINK=LEFT SIDE(SUM)SIDECHAIN BOARD641412AT7L

SLAM! FACTORY ALIGNMENT PROCEDUREPrep: 1) +4 dBu (1.23vAC), 1kHZ Oscillator fed into XLR LINE INPUTS 2) UNBALANCED LINE OUTPUTS feed Level & Disto

Limiter TrimsOPTO LIMITER +4 dBu (1.23vAC), 1kHZ Oscillator fed into XLR LINE INPUTS. 1) VU select = GR. Verify reading close to 0 VU. 2) L&R LIM

SECTION PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 POWER SUPPLY 5 BACK PANEL & CONNECTING 6FRONT PANEL 8METERING 10 LIMITERS, HINTS, ETC. 13THE

LED Meter Trims (This is done in MODE 2) 1) With 0VU, adjust AUDIO PEAK trim (sidechain board) for 4 segments lit. Increase oscillator by 6 dB & B

TROUBLE SHOOTING There are a number of possible symptoms of something not quite right, some may be interfacing, others we will touch on as well. If yo

IT MAKES NOISES WHEN THE FRONT PANEL IS TAPPED - An easy one. Some tubes become microphonic over time. That means they start acting like a bad microph

MAINS CONNECTIONS Your SLAM! has been factory set to the correct mains voltage for your country. The voltage setting is marked on the serial badge, l

Input Tubes: 2 x 12AT7A NOS GE specially selected by Manley Labs for lo-noise and stable biasOutput Tubes: 2 x 6414W NOS USA dual triodesI/O:

ADDENDUM FOR SLAM! MASTERING VERSION The mastering version has a number of changes compared to the regular SLAM!:1) There are no mic preamps or instru

The 50% setting mixes some raw input with the post limiter signal, which is often difcult in a mastering environment. Because the FET side-chain sens

A few points inspired by some of the early comments from SLAM! users make it into this addendum too.The SLAM! is designed primarily as an old school t

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INTRODUCTION THANK YOU!... for choosing the Manley SLAM!. This unit combines Mic and Instrument Preamps, 4 limiters, comprehensive meter-ing and is re

The Swiss Army Knife The SLAM! is an unusual product that doesn’t quite t into a simple catagory. We get questions like “Why have a mic-pre on a limi

MANLEY SLAM! POWER SUPPLY UNIT WARNING: electric shock, do not expose this unit to reduce the risk of fire or to rain or moisture. CAUTION: risk of e

INSTRUMENT IN =100K OHM 1/2 IN =10 MEG UNBAL OUTPUT FULLIN = +4dBu HALFIN = -10 dBv 1/4” BYPASSES XLR O/P. XLR DRIVES ADC INSERT INS

6) PHANTOM POWER SWITCH: This simply turns on 48 regulated volts of phantom power that ‘rides’ on Pin 2&3 of the BALANCED XLR INPUT. In this case,

THE FRONT PANEL 1)SOURCE: This is the Input Selector that you use to choose the input to the SLAM!. The choices are LINE, DI, MIC, MIC ø (phase rever

8) RELEASE: This only affects the FET Limiter. There are 11 positions numbered from 2 Seconds (slowest), to 10 milli-Seconds (fastest). Slow releases