Sweetwater Named API Dealer Jessup, Maryland – June 2009: API Audio, one of the most enduring and respected names in pro audio, has appointed powerhouse dealer Sweetwater Sound to sell its unique brand of rack-mounted gear and Arsenal Audio by API line. The agreement gives users access to API gear in Sweetwater's outlets. The timing is perfect, as the... [more]
		API Supports NERF with Gear and Wild Turkey! Nashville, Tennessee - June 2009: The Nashville Engineer Relief Fund (NERF) has managed to upstage the great Jerry Lewis charity events, at least among audio professionals. NERF's annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament, now in its twelfth year, has become something of a special holiday for those... [more]
		Warren Huart, the Fray, and API Go Number One! Jessup, Maryland – March 2009: Both engineer/producer Warren Huart and the popular group The Fray were no strangers to the great API sound when they purchased one of the first API 1608 small-frame analog consoles back in 2008 to record their second album entitled The Fray. This record has done nearly the impossible for most follow-ups: it went gold in five weeks and debuted number one on the Billboard record charts... [more]
		Dale Pro Audio Now an API Dealer Jessup, Maryland – February 2009: API announces that Dale Pro Audio is now an official dealer of both, API and Arsenal Audio by API, product lines. With over fifty years in business, a staff with hundreds of combined years of experience in the pro audio industry, and a Walters-Storyk-designed showroom, Dale Pro Audio is Manhattan's premier pro audio retailer... [more]
		API 1608 Replaces a Digital Console in New Charleston Sound Studio Mt Pleasant, South Carolina – February 2009: Charleston Sound is arguably the shiniest of the Southeast's recording studio gems, with loads of high-end gear housed inside an acoustically-impeccable space designed by award-winning studio designer Wes Lachot... [more]
		LA's SuperControl Recording Studios Installs API 1608 Console North Hollywood, California – February 2009: SuperControl Recording Studios, set up by a trio of musicians to provide engineering and production services to fellow independent artists, has become the first commercial facility in Southern California to install an API 1608 discrete analog recording console. SuperControl has been open for business since January of 2008, when the partners moved into a previously outfitted and acoustically-designed space... [more]
		API 1608 Console Lands in Strange Weather Brooklyn, New York - December 2008: Strange Weather, a new one-room music studio in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, has installed a 32-input API 1608 discrete analog recording console. The studio is owned and operated by engineer, producer and musician Marc Alan Goodman in partnership with Joel Hamilton and Tony Maimone... [more]
		Nescom Discovers the API 1608 Console Bangor, Maine — October 2008: The New England School of Communications (NESCOM) awards Associate and Bachelor Degrees to one hundred undergraduates a year in concentrations ranging from audio engineering to marketing communications, and from live sound engineering to video production. The school's expansive facility boasts seven fully-appointed control rooms with all the latest gear and technologies... [more]
		API Vision Chosen by Middle Tennessee State University's Department of Recording Industry Murfreesboro, Tennessee — October 2008: In an age when music technology schools and programs seem to be proliferating without bound, Middle Tennessee State University's Department of Recording Industry is distinguished by its reputation, age and size. Many of the industry's leading figures launched their careers... [more]
		Dwight Baker, Matchbox Recording Studio Engineer, Upgrades to an API 1608 Console Austin, Texas — October 2008: Matchbox Recording Studio, in Austin, Texas, has an abundance of both vintage and new analog equipment that, when coupled with a Pro Tools HD3 system, lends authenticity and a somewhat indescribable "organic heft" to the many projects that are recorded there... [more]
		API 1608 Console Stars On CSI Los Angeles, California — October 2008: John Keane has been composing and recording the music for the hit CBS series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" in his personal studio since it first aired in 2000, and has earned six BMI and ASCAP awards and an Emmy nomination for his efforts. A talented multi-instrumentalist who first appeared in the national spotlight in 1977... [more]
		Copenhagen's Studie73 Purchases API 1608 Console From Denmark's Cyber Farm Copenhagen, Denmark — August 2008: Studie73, in Copenhagen, was not built, rather, it evolved. Over the course of twelve long years, owner and chief engineer, Johan Lei Gellett slowly amassed a truly awe-inspiring collection of top-of-the-heap analog equipment and traded up smaller spaces for ever-larger and more acoustically-inspiring sites... [more]
		API Announces the Winners of the First Visionary Scholarship Award Jessup, Maryland – July 2008: API is pleased to announce the three winners of their first annual Visionary Scholarship designed to foster creativity and excellence for the pro audio industry's next generation of sound engineers... [more]
		API to Introduce the New Arsenal Audio by API Line at Summer NAMM Jessup, Maryland - June 2008: API has established a brand new line of analog signal processing products - Arsenal Audio by API. The new line provides an outlet for the company to innovate and expand beyond the core technology on which API has built its reputation since it was established in the late 1960s. Arsenal Audio by API will launch at Summer NAMM in Nashville (Booth #322) with an initial offering of three new products... [more]
		Recording Engineer and Black Keys Frontman, Dan Auerbach Chooses the API 1608 Console for his Project Studio - Akron Analog Akron, Ohio - May 2008: Born of a minimalist aesthetic that values quality and a strong sonic personality over gadgetry, Akron Analog is the newly-built project studio of The Black Keys front-man, Dan Auerbach. Inspired to follow in the old-school, small-room, acoustically-correct tradition pioneered by Sun Records and their ilk, Auerbach hired renowned engineer/producer-cum-acoustician Mark Neil... [more]
		API Gives Away Lunchboxes Every May, the Nashville AES chapter puts on the Audio Masters Golf Tournament, held at the scenic Harpeth Hills golf course south of Nashville. Proceeds from the event and the accompanying auction go to the Nashville Engineer Relief Fund (NERF)... [more]
		Bill Thomas' Home-Based Chicago Studio to Showcase the New API 1608 Console Chicago, Illinois - April 2008: More than fifteen years after an inexpensive digital audio multi-track tape machine kick-started the project studio revolution, analog audio equipment retains its allure in the home environment. One such residence-based studio owner, engineer, producer and analog fan, Bill Thomas, has purchased a new API 1608 discrete analog recording console for his Chicago facility... [more]
		API Vision Console Anchors Archer Records' New Memphis Studio - "Music + Arts" Memphis, Tennessee - April 2008: Although it is arguably the lesser known of Tennessee's great "music cities," Memphis has nurtured a long, rich legacy of groundbreaking artists and independent record labels, and continues to support a bustling and eclectic contemporary music scene that shines on the national stage with exceptional brilliance... [more]
		Custom API 1608 Wave of the Future for Wes Lachot's Overdub Lane Recording Studio Durham, North Carolina - April 2008: Wes Lachot has upgraded his Overdub Lane Recording studio facility with the installation of a 32-input API 1608 discrete analog recording console that was factory-customized with a central chassis extension to house DAW control. The one-of-a-kind console is configured... [more]
		First API 1608 Lands at I.V. Lab Studios Chicago Chicago, Illinois, March 2008: Since opening I.V. Lab Studios two-and-a-half years ago, owner Manny Sanchez has been looking for a mixing console with character at a price that makes sense for a facility catering to local bands and small indie labels. When API launched the 1608 at the AES Convention last year Sanchez knew he'd found his console... [more]
		UK'S Fishfactory Studios Purchases API Legacy Console London, England: March 2008: API, the world's premier manufacturer of high-end analog pro audio gear, is enjoying a resurgence around the world and in Europe in particular, where sales of the company's outboard signal processors are brisk. Fishfactory Studios in north London is enjoying the distinction of being one of the premiere studios in the UK to purchase an API console — in this case a 32-channel API Legacy Plus... [more]
		API Trademarks Signature Knob Jessup, Maryland: February 2008: Now approaching its 40th year of designing and building high-end analog consoles and outboard processors, API Audio announced that it has been granted a trademark for its signature dual-concentric knob. Trademark for the knob, which graces every piece of API gear, and is immediately recognizable as the "look" of API, was issued on January 1, 2008... [more]
		API Has a Vision For the Future Jessup, Maryland: API is pleased to announce the creation of a scholarship program designed to foster creativity and excellence for the pro audio industry's next generation of sound engineers. The scholarship will be available to students enrolled or accepted in the prestigious sound engineering programs at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and New York University... [more]
		API Introduces Console At AES Jessup, Maryland: API proudly introduced the API Model 1608 recording console at the 123rd AES Convention in New York City. The console builds on the design, sound and reputation of the classic API 1604 — workhorse for over thirty years — and adds new options to satisfy the demands of modern recording practices... [more]
		Chiccarelli Taps API For Every Session Los Angeles, Calfornia: After a couple of decades working in a multitude of studios with a wide cross-section of artists as an engineer, producer and mixer, Joe Chiccarelli has had the opportunity to try many different types and brands of recording equipment. But one brand became a constant early on in his career, and has become integral to Chiccarelli's typical signal path — API... [more]
		Winston-Salem State University Music Department Adds API Gear Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Having tripled its enrollment from 2,000 to nearly 6,000 students in just six years, Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina is one of the fastest growing institutions of higher education in the country... [more]
		John Mcbride Purchases Second and Largest Ever API Legacy for Blackbird Studios Nashville, Tennessee: In the five short years since its birth, Blackbird Studio in Nashville has emerged as one of the recording industry's treasures: a studio built from the bottom up to uncompromising standards. Owned by John and Martina McBride, a powerhouse duo with complementary talents on both sides of the microphone, Blackbird is home to the finest collection of recording equipment and the greatest acoustics in Nashville... [more]
		API News: API/ATI's 8MX2s Find a Place With the Parrotheads Los Angeles, California: Engineer and mixer Mark Linett joined the Parrotheads in paradise, recording Jimmy Buffet and the Coral Reefer Band at a special charity show on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in late March... [more]
		API Announces New Plug-In Collection For Waves Jessup, Maryland: June 29, 2007, API announces the release of their line of modeled plug-ins. Aptly named the API Collection, the new plug-ins are co-engineered with and for Waves... [more]
		Archer Records Purchases Api Vision Console Memphis, Tennessee: When Ward Archer, owner of Memphis indie record label Archer Records, contemplated a new console as part of a recent studio expansion, he knew it had to be analog, discrete, automated, and 5.1-ready... [more]
		Net Label Chooses Legendary API's New A2D Converter Parlin, New Jersey: Post-Pop Music House is a net label and publishing group. It represents the advance wave of smaller, DIY operations that have cast off every vestige of physical music distribution. Post-Pop distributes its pop-influenced electronic dance bands solely through the Internet... [more]
		University Of Michigan Joins Leading Universities In Purchasing An API Vision Console For Graduate School Recording Prog Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Duderstadt Center on the north campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is a utopian's multimedia center, with an electronic music studio, a digital media tools lab, a virtual reality cave, multimedia collaboration rooms, and a recently overhauled, state-of-the-art audio recording studio... [more]
		API Vision Console Centerpiece of UMass Lowell Masters Program Lowell, Massachusetts: The Sound Recording Technology department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell offers one of the nation's premier programs for training in professional audio for music, screen, games, and related industries. In addition to 130 undergraduates, the program is home to six graduate students seeking a masters of music degree in sound recording technology, the first degree of its kind offered in the United States... [more]
		API Chooses Mix Wave for Japanese Distribution Jessup, Maryland: API Audio, the manufacturer of analog signal processing and mixing equipment for professional sound recording, will strengthen its presence in Japan by naming Mix Wave as their Japanese distributor. Collectively, the Mix Wave staff have been working in the Japanese music and video industries for decades and have developed personal relationships with most of the major and minor recording and mastering studios in the country... [more]
		Record Plant Remote Gears up for Nashville Star Ringwood, New Jersey: The Record Plant Remote has become legendary during more than 30 years of mobile recording service, capturing live performances by some of the biggest names in music for broadcast and release on disc, whether vinyl, CD or DVD. The truck, based in New Jersey, has long relied on API analog outboard equipment, and for the last ten years or so has also featured a 54-input Discrete API analog mixing console... [more]
		5500 Dual Equalizer At AES Jessup, Maryland: API Audio will debut the latest in the company's 19-inch rack mounted products - the 5500 dual equalizer - at the 2006 AES in San Francisco. Designed for recording, mixing and mastering applications, the single rack space API 5500 is a two-channel EQ package with an all-discrete signal path that combines the classic features of the API 550B four-band EQ module with the boost and cut precision of the 550D and the 550M mastering equalizer... [more]
		Westwave Audio Opens API Demo Studio in Los Angeles Burbank, California: A brand new dealership for API professional audio products has just opened in Los Angeles that is something of a departure from the average retail outlet. Run by working professionals, Westwave Audio, Inc. offers one-on-one assistance (by appointment only) during weekday evenings at its Burbank demo facility. Westwave Audio places great emphasis on education, holding informative seminars and producing an ongoing series of podcasts on all aspects of music recording and audio post-production... [more]
		It's All API on Andrew Scheps' Red Hot Chili Pepper Tracks Los Angeles, California: Long the masters of Billboard magazine's Modern Rock chart, the Red Hot Chili Peppers surprised everyone but their fans by debuting at number one on the Billboard Top 200 for the first time ever with their latest album, "Stadium Arcadium." It no doubt also came as no surprise to the man who mixed half of the double album, Andrew Scheps, who used an arsenal of API modules to bring out the best in the analog tape recordings... [more]
		John Agnello Relies On API For Punk/Jock Hybrid Andrew W.K.'s Anticipated Third Release Jersey City, New Jersey: Andrew W.K., the unique solo artist who writes and records music that literally sounds like a party, is currently readying his third full-length release, arguably the most important effort of his career. Following 'I Get Wet' and 'The Wolf,' this yet-to-be-titled album is a crucial one for W.K. - an arena-rocking punk/jock hybrid vocalist singing atop a soundtrack, not unlike a classic '80s beer commercial... [more]
		UMASS Lowell Chooses Api Vision Console For Masters Recording Program Lowell, Massachusetts: The prestigious University of Massachusetts, Lowell announces the purchase of a 48-channel API Vision Surround Mixing Console for their Master of Music in Sound Recording Technology program under the direction of Dr. William Moylan, chairperson of the Department of Music... [more]
		Winner of the API Ear Candy Drawing, Paul Barton Receives API A2D Serial #001 Jessup, Maryland: API Audio is pleased to announce the winner of the "Ear Candy" contest May 1st drawing. Congratulations to Paul Barton of Ann Arbor, Michigan... [more]
		API Has Two Heads Charleston, South Carolina: "Just about anywhere you hear music, you just might hear us," reports composer Chris McLernon. "We do music for television, film and advertising." McLernon forgets, somehow, the music that he and his Two Heads Music partner, Rick Sanders, have composed for DVD releases, corporate electronic press kits and radio. "It's surprising to be standing somewhere and hear our stuff," he adds with a laugh. "Our music seems to be used everywhere"... [more]