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]

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