As Manley Labs' flagship compressor since 1994, the Vari Mu is a tube and transformer-driven classic that exudes handmade craftsmanship and stands as the gold standard among mixing and mastering engineers. The Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor plug-in now brings the same unparalleled clarity and cohesion to your stereo buses or your entire mix as the high-end hardware.

Easily Add Stunning Polish: Treat your source material to velvety-smooth gain reduction while infusing warm harmonic content, all free of audible compression artifacts, with the Manley Vari Mu Limiter Compressor plug-in. This powerful tool adds a variable gain compressor with stunning transparency to your studio, ensuring your audio retains its natural fidelity while gaining a polished, professional sheen.

Enhance Tracks and Glue Mixes: The Manley Vari Mu Limiter Compressor plug-in is incredibly versatile. It can be effectively used on individual instruments such as bass or a lead vocal to add subtle richness and control, or applied to subgroups like strings or horns for cohesive dynamics. However, its true purpose, its raison d'être, is on the mix bus, where it excels at unifying your mixes with a rich, high-fidelity fit and finish, creating a sense of professional cohesion.

Polish your Mixes with Powerful Controls: This plug-in offers robust controls for precise mix shaping. Parameter linking allows for simultaneous adjustment of both channels when working with stereo signals, ensuring balanced processing. When unlinked, the plug-in's Mid/Side processing offers an improvement over the hardware, providing phase-accurate stereo imaging for enhanced spatial control. Utilize the High Pass Sidechain filter to effectively reduce unwanted low-end pumping, allowing you to compress, for example, overheads, while perfectly retaining their punchy bottom-end. The Dry/Wet Mix offers easy parallel compression, perfect for polishing vocals and much more, giving you flexible dynamic control. Finally, Headroom lets you optimize the Variable Mu’s overall level to your playback system, ensuring optimal gain staging and performance.

Features:

• Add definition and fidelity to individual tracks, stereo buses, or an entire mix, elevating the overall quality of your audio.
• Glue together difficult mixes with the signature Manley tube compression, renowned for its ability to create cohesive and professional-sounding masters.
• Link channels for a precise, perfectly matched stereo image, ensuring balanced and consistent processing across your stereo field.
• Select from **Left/Right or Mid/Side operation** for precise control of stereo imaging, allowing you to fine-tune the width and depth of your mix.
• Use the plug-in-only Dry/Wet Mix control to easily dial in parallel compression, providing seamless blending of compressed and uncompressed signals for added punch and density.