Massenburg and Manley announce Manufacturing Alliance
joined forces with
February 7, 2001
Chino, CA--EveAnna Manley, CEO, Manley Laboratories, Inc. and George Massenburg, CEO, GML, Inc. have begun production of GML audio peripheral products by Manley Labs. GML, Inc. will vacate its current manufacturing facility on Burnet Ave. in Van Nuys, CA within the next few weeks and move its inventories, specialized assembly fixtures and production staff to Manley Lab's Chino, CA factory. The well-established GML units will be built alongside the Manley and Langevin products currently manufactured at Manley Labs and will be supervised by longtime GML production manager, Manny Sanchez.
Manny Sanchez organizing GML parts inventory at the Manley Labs factory.
GML production testing, as well as peripherals service and automation support and service, will be relocated to Franklin, TN to join with the R&D lab long established there, all to be directly supervised by George Massenburg.
George Massenburg described the cooperative effort: "I have admired EveAnna Manley's production capability for a long time, but even then I was impressed when I saw her factory for the first time last year. Like the best manufacturers I know, they do just about everything in-house. Metalwork, silk-screening, engraving, printed circuit board manufacture, hand and wave soldering, transformer winding, assembly--all with meticulous quality control. Her team of 40 is highly experienced and efficient. I thought, 'Why should I be tearing my hair out trying to duplicate this? We should just team up.'"
And so they have. EveAnna Manley continued, "Building the GML outboard gear will be a piece of cake for us as George's manufacturing methods and philosophies are already so much like ours. We already share numerous high-quality component vendors, and even specific parts. GML is the high-end, solid-state equivalent to our Manley high-end vacuum tube gear. It fits perfectly. But it's the opportunity to work with George that is really exciting for us."
"We had Manley build a test run of several GML peripherals in December 2000," stated Massenburg, "and these Manley-manufactured units were indistinguishable from GML-manufactured ones."
Manley Labs' Printed Circuit Board guru, Elias Guzman shows off a brand new production GML micpre board.
GML production manager Manny Sanchez goes over a GML 8200 equalizer with Manley production manager, Marcelino Tornez.
GML's Design Engineer, Jeffrey Warren, comes to Chino every couple months to train the Manley Labs Quality Control crew and teach them new testing procedures or to get new products into production.
Pictured Left to Right: Manny Sanchez, GML Production Manager; Jeffrey Warren GML Design Engineer; Gamma Ibarra, Quality Control; Humberto Rodriguez, QC Engineer & Department Manager.
(Hey, Gamma and Humberto: You cannot wear the same swag on the same day! One of you needs to go home and change...)
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Non-breaking news: TransAmerica Group (Brad Lunde) to Distribute GML
Las Vegas, NV 11/14/2001 George Massenburg Labs (GML) has joined forces with Transamerica Audio Group (TAG) for product distribution in the United
States. Distinguished among audio manufacturers for uncompromised fidelity and painstaking attention to detail, GML has long enjoyed the respect of engineers the world over....
PRESS RELEASE 11/25/2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GEORGE MASSENBURG LABS SHOWCASES THE ULTIMATE
SINGLE-CHANNEL INPUT PROCESSOR AT AES NYC 2001:
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: George Massenburg Labs (GML) has combined the elements
of the its three most popular processors to create the Model 2020 High
Resolution Discrete Input Channel, providing users with peerless microphone
pre- amplification, filtering, equalization, and dynamics processing in a
two-rack space unit. Heir to thirty years of analog engineering expertise,
the Model 2020 boasts reference-quality transparency and provides an elegant
front-end solution for digital and analog recording media alike. Manley
Laboratories (Chino, California) is manufacturing the Model 2020, in
conjunction with GML, as part of the high-end manufacturers' recent
alliance. The product is in production and now shipping.
The Model 2020 is a single-channel input processor and accepts either
microphone or line-level signals with phase reversal and phantom power
switches. The switching, filtering, equalization, and dynamics sections
allow for flexible routing (including side-chain insertion) to accommodate
any recording situation. Like all GML processors, it features
discrete-transistor, balanced/symmetrical class-A op-amps which deliver the
widest-bandwidth, lowest-noise, and the most extended-dynamic-range audio
signal possible.
"We designed the Model 2020 based on the 8300 preamplifier, 8200 parametric
equalizer, and 8900 dynamics processor," noted George Massenburg, GML CEO
and original inventor of the parametric equalizer. "The designs are the
result of decades of research, prototyping, manufacturing, listening to
users and then subsequent alterations in our enduring drive towards
engineering completely transparent audio processing. We conceived of the
Model 2020 in response to the growing trend in 'front-end' processing, where
a premium is placed on signal processing before the signal hits tape or,
even more often, A/D converters. Because such uses often call for only a
channel or two at a time, there's a need for processing power that's long on
features (such as exquisite preamplification, equalization, and dynamics
processing) and not so long on channels. It's a balance between use,
features, and price point, and the Model 2020 fits the niche perfectly."
AT AES, GML products will be showcased in the Transamerica Audio Booth #547
and Manley Labs Booth. Both are part of THE AUDIO UNDERGROUND COALITION.
