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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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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
PSW Staff 04/13/10 10:20 AM, 0 CommentsBerklee has replaced three of its older consoles with three new 32-channel discrete analog API Legacy Plus consoles over the winter break, in keeping with their commitment to train students on only “definitive tools” used in the pro audio industry. “We’ve received nothing but glowing reviews from students, faculty and staff,” said Rob Jaczko, chair of the MP&E Department. “API represents a professional benchmark that has been a sonic standard for decades. Innumerable classic albums owe their sound to API.”… View this story
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
PSW Staff 03/25/10 08:45 AM, 0 CommentsRecently, the New England School of Communications (NESCOM) upgraded one of the consoles in its control rooms, choosing a 48-channel API Vision surround production console for Studio D. “There are a variety of schools of thought about whether it is better to mix ‘in the box’ or ‘out of the box’,” said Dave MacLaughlin, executive director of audio for NESCOM. “There are even regional variations. Nashville engineers, for example, tend to treat their DAWs like tape recorders, relying on external… View this story
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Friday, February 19, 2010
PSW Staff 02/19/10 05:18 PM, 0 CommentsUsers of Black Series portable signal processing from Audient can now carry API 500 standard modules in their Black Rack system with the 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. “The Black 500 Adapter gives users… View this story
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
PSW Staff 10/28/09 09:36 AM, 0 CommentsAPI has introduced the 527 compressor, a single channel module based on API’s 225L discreet channel compressor. The 527 features comprehensive controls including variable attack, release, ratio, and output gain controls. The unit also includes API’s patented ‘Thrust’ circuit, first offered on the 2500 Stereo Bus Compressor. A 10 segment LED meter is switchable between gain reduction and output level. “Anyone who has used the 225L compressor found in API consoles has expressed a longing for the same kind of… View this story
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Friday, October 02, 2009
PSW Staff 10/02/09 08:38 AM, 0 CommentsProdigy Engineering has developed Bella, the first-ever, remote-controllable, microphone preamplifier for the API 500 Series format. Bella features relay stepped gain from 18 dB to 69 dB in 1 dB increments, switchable high-pass filter (-3 dB @78 Hz), phantom power (48V), polarity inversion (0/180˚), attenuation pad (-22 dB), and mute functionality. Additionally, Bella can be remote controlled from professional standard digital audio workstations like Apple’s Logic software and Digidesign Pro Tools | HD systems, as well as ICON control surfaces.… View this story
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