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Thursday, April 19, 2012
PSW Staff 04/19/12 11:55 AM,Famed producer, mixer and engineer Joe Chiccarelli is slated to appear for API (Automated Processes Inc.) at a special API JDK Day event. The special showing will feature a Q&A with Chiccarelli as well as a demonstration of his recording and mixing techniques using an API 1608. “We are so thrilled to have Joe available to appear at this event,” said Larry Droppa, API president. “Getting Joe to explain his recording and mixing techniques in an intimate forum like this… View this story
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Monday, March 12, 2012
PSW Staff 03/12/12 09:37 AM,Brussels-based Studio La Buanderie has recently installed a 16-channel API 1608 – a console that its owner and engineer, Pieter Apers, calls, “the holy grail in recording.” Apers purchased the fully-analog console through API dealer Amptec, who is credited with quickly bringing multiple 1608 consoles into Belgium. “I have always been an audio enthusiast, so I have known about API for a very long time,” said Apers. “But when I was choosing a console for my studio, I considered a… View this story
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Monday, February 27, 2012
PSW Staff 02/27/12 11:19 AM,Foo Fighters took home five statues at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards for an album produced entirely using a 32-channel API 1608 console. For its Wasting Light album, the band went back to basics, switching off the computers and tracking and mixing to tape via the all-analog API console, with the help of engineer James Brown and producer Butch Vig. In his acceptance speech after the band received the Best Rock Performance award, frontman Grohl said, “Rather than go to… View this story
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
PSW Staff 12/14/11 10:02 AM, 0 CommentsConstructed in rocker Alice Cooper’s former house in 2008, Canyon Hut Recording Studio has recently acquired and installed a fully analog, all-discrete API 1608 console. According to co-owner Tim Hutton, picking the right console was an easy decision once he heard the 1608. “When making the decision to buy a console, I knew it had to feel ‘right’ in my gut,” says Hutton. I tested many and most of them were fairly linear. The 1608 was the only console that… View this story
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
PSW Staff 11/16/11 10:15 AM, 0 CommentsSince breaking into the music scene in 2002, Juno Award-winning composer/producer Ian Nieman has created an array of hits and remixes for the likes of Mariah Carey, LeAnn Rimes, Nelly Furtado and Jason Derulo - all with the help of his API equipment. Now the owner of a new API 1608 console, Nieman plans to continue making even more Billboard-worthy tracks at his Canadian studio. “I have always been a fan of API products and of their punchy sound,” said… View this story
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
PSW Staff 06/09/11 09:20 AM, 0 CommentsAPI’s lunchbox has earned a prime role on Oxygen’s new reality series titled The Glee Project scheduled to debut in June. The Glee Project follows hopeful contestants as they try to win a recurring role on the musical TV series Glee. “When I was looking for gear for the new show I tried a couple other systems and some of the music got a little fuzzy and cloudy,” said Kris Pooley, a musical director for live tours and the music… View this story
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Friday, October 01, 2010
PSW Staff 10/01/10 08:15 AM, 0 CommentsAPI has announced the delivery of the first API 1608 console in Norway. The desk arrived in the country through API’s newest representative, ProLyd AS, and was placed in the Oslo-based Livingroom Studios. According to George Tanderø, engineer/mixer at Livingroom Studios, acquiring the console is “a dream come true.” “I wanted a console that had modern routing and monitoring facilities that would give me a large, super solid, ‘punchy’ sound straight out of the box,” Tanderø said. “Having used both… View this story
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
PSW Staff 06/15/10 06:39 PM, 0 CommentsAlmost two years after John McBride’s Blackbird Studio in Nashville purchased 1608 serial number 001, API President Larry Droppa recently traveled to Los Angeles to congratulate film and television composer William Anderson on his purchase of the 100th API 1608 console. Built to the exacting standards of API’s1604 console, the 1608 puts the company’s sound and discrete analog circuitry into a modern mixer that is perfectly suited to work with digital recording platforms, at a price that is within reach… View this story
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Friday, May 07, 2010
PSW Staff 05/07/10 04:32 PM, 0 CommentsFDW Corp announces that users of the portable signal processing Black Series from Audient can now carry API 500 standard modules in their Black Rack system with the simple addition of the new Black 500 adapter. Made up of a neat metalwork caddy which slips neatly into the Black Series BB4 and BR10 racks, it adapts the Black Series power to suit the API specification, so that any single 500-system compatible module can be housed alongside original Black Series modules.… View this story
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
PSW Staff 04/20/10 08:15 AM, 0 CommentsLegendary rocker and bluesman Steve Miller continues recording and touring. Together with engineer Kent Hertz and producer Andy Johns, Miller is currently re-recording his greatest hits, which will be released on Miller’s new record label “Space Cowboy Records.” The trio purchased a 32-channel API 1608 console to contribute the right sound to their otherwise digital workflow. As soon as the API 1608 arrived, Hertz ran some tracks through flat. “Even with no processing, the sound was instantly punched way up,” he remarked.… View this story
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