API 527 Compressor/limiter

Classic and Modern API Compression
The API 527 compressor/limiter brings the same incredible character and response to your 500 Series rack found in their 2500 Stereo Bus Compressor. Featuring both API's newer "feed forward" and original "feed back" gain reduction methods, the 527 covers a wide range of tone - from classic warmth to modern precision. The 527 also offers you API's famous "over-easy" soft knee type, with the option of engaging a hard knee for limiting. A wide range of threshold, attack, and decay settings give you an extended degree of control over your compression, and the 527's detented attack and decay knobs make recalling your favorite settings easy and reliable. And since the API 527 uses both 2510 and 2520 discrete op-amps, it give you signature API sound.
API 527 500-series-format Compressor/Limiter Features at a Glance:

Compressor/limiter formatted for use with 500-series racks
Continuously variable detented Threshold control
Continuously variable detented Attack and Release controls
Continuously variable detented Ratio control
Audio circuit uses the 2510 and 2520 Discrete Op Amps with transformer output
Output Fader level control
10-segment VU gain reduction meter with selector switch
Overload warning LED
"Link" switch for multiple unit interdependent compression linking
"New"/"Old" switch for feed-forward or feed-back compression
"Hard"/"Soft" compression curve knee switch
Patented "Thrust" switch for frequency dependent side chain control
"IN" switch with hard relay bypass when in the "Out" position

Give your 500 Series rack the real sound of API compression, with an API 527 compressor/limiter!


Tech Specs



Number of Channels
1


Controls
Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, Output, Thrust, Knee, Type (Old, New), Link, Meter


Threshold
+10dBu to -20dBu


Ratio
1:1 to 1:Infinity


Frequency Response
20Hz-20kHz


Height
5.25"


Depth
7.5"


Width
1.5"


Weight
2.15 lbs.


Manufacturer Part Number
527






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