GML UREI-1176
A name that gets stenciled onto two different legends — and the archive isn't going to pretend it knows which one you mean.
Overview
Here's the honest problem with this entry: "GML UREI-1176" is a collision of two separate manufacturers, and the documentation trail doesn't resolve it. GML and UREI are different companies with different product lines, and the 1176 — the famous FET compressor/limiter — is a UREI product. Whether the intended subject here is a GML-branded piece, a straight UREI 1176, or some reissue or derivative is not established by anything in the source material. Collectors searching this exact string should treat it as ambiguous until a serial plate or a manual settles it.
What the period literature does show is that the two names lived in the same rooms and the same racks, which is probably how the confusion started. A Modern Recording (May 1985, p.36) studio inventory lists a GML 8200 parametric EQ sitting alongside API 550A and 560A equalizers and an AMS RM16 reverberator — the kind of rack where a UREI 1176 would also plausibly turn up, though that particular listing doesn't name one. The point is that GML and UREI gear were neighbors in serious rooms, not the same badge on the same box.
There's a further wrinkle worth flagging. In a February 1997 issue, Mix (p.117) covered ADgear's Over Quality UR-76S stereo compressor/limiter, distributed by GML of Van Nuys, California, and explicitly described it as modeled on the popular but long-discontinued UREI 1176. That's a GML-distributed product explicitly tied to the 1176 name — which may be exactly the source of a "GML UREI-1176" search. But it is a different product from a UREI 1176, and the archive will not merge the two.
Because the research block for this entry is empty — no verified specs, no production years, no original price, no dimensions, no confirmed circuit details — there is nothing here to state as fact about gain reduction, ratio, attack and release behavior, transformer types, or metering. Owners report plenty about 1176-family units in general, but that general reputation is not documentation for this specific listing, and this page won't dress it up as such. If you're holding a unit, the serial plate and any accompanying manual are the authority; the name alone isn't.
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