API Releases New Compact Console – The Box
Following up with more compact console news and yet another API-centered release, the masters of the analog realm have revealed The Box.
Inspired by API’s analog heritage, The Box contains API’s one-of-a-kind discrete circuitry found in their popular large format consoles but in a smaller footprint. This makes the compact console ideal for those who require the warmth and quality of a large format console but who only record a few sources at a time.
The new compact console drew crowds instantly at AES 2013. The Box is available now for $17,995.00 MSRP — here are more details from API:
API THE BOX Project Recording and Mixing Console
Building on API’s rich heritage of extremely high-quality recording consoles, THE BOX is a small-format recording/mixing console designed for professional project studios, home studios, and production facilities of all kinds. Optimized for the digital era, THE BOX handles all the functions needed for production not provided by most DAWs, including mic preamps, input signal processing, high-quality mix bus, cue sends with talkback, monitor control, and more, without the redundant capacities of larger consoles. Most importantly, THE BOX provides the legendary “all discrete” API sound in an efficient, cost-effective package.
Features
- Two (2) input channels with mic/instrument/line preamp, HP filter, & integral 550A EQ
- Two (2) input channels with mic/instrument/line preamp, HP filter, & 500 slot
- Two (2) compressors assignable to input channels or program bus with stereo link
- Sixteen (16) summing channels (20 channels during mix)
- Stereo program bus with master fader, insert, and external input
- One (1) stereo and (2) mono auxiliary sends/buses
- Stereo cue send/bus & headphone system
- PFL, AFL, and solo-in-place solo modes with stereo solo bus
- Full-featured monitor section that supports two stereo monitor systems
- Talkback system
- Comprehensive rear panel connections with balanced inputs and outputs
- Integrated power supply
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