It has lots of nice sounding tubes and an action which itself is very gentle and musical. The original Vari-Mu was an all-tube compressor design, as I mentioned it was based loosely around the original Fairchild design. A heady achievement for any piece of gear and the Vari-Mu is a master at it – smooth, musical and with a great tone. You take a mix and send it through it and without fail it will make it sound better. I mean… there will be people out there that don’t like what it does…but we are finding them and getting rid of them. It is the ultimate glue box and that’s no over exaggeration. You could amble into well-known mastering studios all over the world and more often than not find one of these boxes being used every day. When Manley released what is ostensibly their version of the most venerable of the variable Mu compressor designs – the Fairchild 670 – it quickly became well regarded in the mastering and mixing rooms of the world. A thoroughbred classic – finally in software form
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