The Langevin Mini Massive is the little brother to Manley’s Massive Passive EQ and is based on the same passive EQ sections as the Massive’s Low & High Band. It shares many of the same components and circuit layout. It's compact at only 1U high and around half the price of the Massive. It includes some new features and refinements plus a new level of clarity fit for mastering at its best.

Manley Labs' chief engineer Hutch redesigned the 4 lowest shelf settings and the 4 highest frequency shelf settings plus adding new higher Q bell shapes for the 4 highest frequencies to achieve even more Pultec-like fatness and warmth in the deep lows. The new high frequency curves are designed for air, sweetness and sparkle. Compared to the Massive Passive, the toggle switch that selects between Bell and Shelf has become a 3 position switch, to introduce the new higher Q Bell curves on the 4 highest frequencies. These features give the Mini Massive even more power and flexibility to achieve that elusive big round tight bottom and silky atmospheric top.

The Mini Massive uses 4 of the new Manley Rapture Amplifiers for gain. These were designed to achieve the cleanest most musical sounding gain stage we could get and were originally intended for use in an ultra high spec D/A converter. They are further augmented by series and shunt power supply regulators to provide a refined low noise power supply. As with the Massive Passive, huge headroom is available and the Mini will output +30 dBv balanced into 50 ohms. The Mini Massive can accommodate balanced, or unbalanced +4, or unbalanced –10 loads, and each is always driven optimally.
And for those who would prefer transformer outputs, there is an option for the same transformers as in the Massive Passive. These can add a subtle degree of warmth and smoothness by themselves. A 3-way toggle on the back panel (IRON) not only allows those with the transformer option, to bypass the transformer, or to use the transformers, or to force them into a more vintage-like flavor for even more fat and aggressive colors.

Of course, for those who want a Mono 4-band EQ only need to patch the output of Channel 1 into the input of Channel 2. The low band ends at 1K and the high band begins at 560. Shelf frequencies go far and still offer dramatic curves.

If you want a Manley EQ but feel the Massive Passive is outside your budget or a little too coloured for your tastes, >the Mini Massive is a great and cost effective alternative. The Massive Passive was designed to be a tube EQ with character and with the creative potential of forgotten passive techniques. The Mini Massive is a clean, lean machine, with the same performance (and then some!) where it was wanted most.

One EQ is never appropriate for everything and anything (there is no such device) but the Mini Massive could well be your first choice EQ for most things.