Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 06, 2001 -- EveAnna Manley, CEO, Manley Laboratories, Inc. and George Massenburg, CEO, GML, Inc. are proud to announce the commencement of 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 long-time GML Production Manager, Manny Sanchez.

GML production testing, as well as peripherals service and automation support and service, will be relocated to Franklin, Tennessee to join with the R&D lab long established there, all to be directly supervised by George Massenburg. Frank Wire will maintain the GML Inc. sales and support office in Los Angeles.

George Massenburg described the cooperation, "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 did. 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."

GML products to be manufactured by Manley Labs include the archetype 8200 Parametric EQ and 9500 Mastering EQ, the 8302 and 8304 all-discrete-transistor, transformerless microphone preamplifiers, and the innovative 8900 Dynamic Range Controller. Production of the 2020 combo unit introduced by GML at AES 2000 will also begin on the Manley assembly line.

"We had Manley build a test run of several GML peripherals in December and these Manley-manufactured units were indistinguishable from GML-manufactured ones," states Massenburg.

GML, Inc. (615) 790-1016 (805) 492-8175 http://www.massenburg.com

Manley Laboratories, Inc. (909) 627-4256 http://www.manleylabs.com