Manley TNT MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIER Manual de usuario

Manley Laboratories, Inc.13880 Magnolia Ave.Chino, California 91710Tel: +1 (909) 627-4256Fax: +1 (909) 628-2482www.manley.comTNT

The Tube Channel The left side (T) or channel one, is almost an exact replica of the SLAM! Mic Preamplier and audio path. The only d

Tube Channel Continued If the transformer is driving some heavy resistive load like some piece of vintage gear still set up for 600 Ohms the

Consider the singer, headphones on, and getting a blend of their voice through bone conduction and those phones. All too often there is somethi

THE COOL CHANNEL Solid State or Right Channel The No Tubes side of the TNT gives you a range of colors and might even be considered a contrast to the

The Impedance switch also has markings on the right hand side that are for the INSTRUMENT input only. How a magnetic pick-up reacts somewhat depends o

Any particular tips using the NT channel? Techniques specic to the solid-state side of the TNT are not daunting. Most likely the rst thing t

Like most mic preamps, the TNT has high-pass lters to remove unwanted low frequencies. The most common situations to use it is for vocals to mi

The IRON knob may disappoint some who expect a radical and obvious effect. It can be subtle, especially for mid-range dominant sounds like vocals and

The ¼” transformerless output has a switch on the back panel that allows it to PROPERLY drive +4 dBm balanced inputs, +4 dBm (pin 2 hot) unbal

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

3/15/11revCDSECTION PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 BACK PANEL & CONNECTING 4 FRONT PANEL 5 BEGINNINGS 6IMPEDANCE 8TUBE CHANNEL 10COOL CHANNEL 13TROU

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THD+N Ampl vs AMPLITUDE at 25 Hz Gain Switch @ 20, Gain Trim @ 0. 4x IRON SETTINGS + BYPASS IRON +3 IRON -1 IRON 0 1/4” OUT IRON 1 0.0031000.

COOL CHANNEL IMPEDANCE SWITCH RELATIVE LEVELS Microphone Output ImpedancesThe middle horizontal line suggests a range of typical microphone output im

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

SPECIFICATIONSTUBE CHANNEL (Left Channel) GAIN RANGE +10 dB to +80 dB (20-70dB in 5 dB steps) MIC INPUT IMPEDANCE 600, 2400, 10,000 Ohms INSTRUMENT

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INTRODUCTION THANK YOU ! For choosing the Manley TNT Microphone Preamplier. The name of this mic preamplier “TNT” is a reference to the two differen

THE BACK PANEL First connect all the cables, then turn on the power, wait 30 seconds, then have fun, as if we had to tell you... 1) POWER CONNECTOR.

TNT+22+100LSIGOUTPUTINPUTPOWERONOFF60s70sCLEANIRONTRIMGAININSTRUMENTFILTER60 Hz120 HzFLATPHANTOMPHASEONOFF1800TRIMGAININSTRUMENT3MEG1MEG300K10K2400600

BEGINNINGS The TNT project began due to requests from fans of the SLAM! and in particular Lynn Fuston of 3D Audio Inc. The request was simply “Can you

The TNT was getting interesting. We now had a tube preamp from the SLAM! on one side plus two solid state preamps working together on the other side,

Perhaps it is because those near opposite characters of the two circuits, that when combined or blended the audible benets and strengths of each

At very low impedance settings with dynamic and ribbon mics another effect can come into play. Damping is a term normally associated wit