Manley - Massive Passive - KMR Demo Room

Manley Massive Passive is a dual channel, 4-band valve passive EQ characterised by an organic, highly musical sound.
An established modern classic, Massive Passive is suitable for a wide range of applications from subtle mastering corrections to vivid tone sculpting. Manley describe this unit as being “like a Pultec on steroids”, handling huge HF boosts without sibilance and beefy LF without muddiness.
Unlike most EQ designs, Massive Passive’s four frequency bands are built in parallel, rather than in series. This means that overlapping frequencies do not suffer from the cumulative effect of tweaking each band and as each band works independently from the exact same source, the result is much more transparent.
Each band can be set to bypass, boost or cut with a bell or shelf curve. Each band is capable of 20dB of boost or cut with impressive headroom. Five extremely steep high-pass and low pass filters are also added to remove unwanted frequencies such as low-end rumble. Both HPF and LPF interact with the main parametric EQ section.
A top-flight EQ made with Manley’s usual exemplary build quality.
00:00 - Intro
00:05 - Electronica Mix
00:53 - Female Vocal
01:17 - Rock Mix
02:01 - Acoustic Guitar
02:27 - Jazz Mix
03:16 - Technical Specs
More info: kmraudio.com/products/manley-...

[@NickScottProducer]

love the song too! Burial/Lorn vibes.

[@JuanNungaray]

I have the mastering version of this but this is exactly what this machine does to your sound, it makes it instantly better. I freakin love Manley gear their craftsmanship and attention to detail is incredible very worth the cost. You guys should also make a video on the “Slam Mastering Version” as well I don’t see a whole lot of videos on it, it is a very underrated piece that is wonderful sounding and can’t live without in my studio. Thanks for the great video guys!!!

[@kmraudio]

Yep, we can only agree - Massive Passive is a straight-up classic. It's been around so long we thought it was good idea to remind folk just how good it is! We'll put SLAM on the list for future videos 👍

[@audiokemestry]

Great video. I love my massive passive!

[@GloveBunniesVideos]

Great examples, thanks!

[@septembre1129]

Thank you, it was great.

[@Fwuzeem]

Nice, I've been creating my own massive passive versions now in Bluecat Patchwork now that is know it's 4 parallel channels with one EQ band on each one 👍 Of course I'm making sure to have Tube saturation on each channel and on the summing as well

[@egosynth86]

Hi, can you tell us what this plugin is please ? I don't understand what I see ^^

[@kmraudio]

This is no plug-in my friend! It's a 7kg lump of metal and valves carefully crafted into one of the best EQ's on the planet 😉 More info: tinyurl.com/3ussthhu

[@egosynth86]

Yeah I know thanks 😊 but the drawing on the right of the screen what is this ? Is That control de knob Manley ?

[@kmraudio]

. @egosynth86 ​ It's just a graphical representation of the settings of the hardware that we've added to make it easy to see what we're doing to the sound.