API The Box Console

Legendary API Sound in a Compact, Cost-effective Package!
API's The Box small-format recording/mixing console is the ideal
choice for your project studio if you record a few channels at a time
but want the warmth and punch that a large-format API console delivers.
Sporting the same circuitry and performance as API's esteemed Vision,
Legacy Plus, and 1608 boards, the Box delivers the legendary API "big
console sound" in a smaller, more affordable package. The Box gives you
four input channels, full center section control, and 16 summing
channels, assignable classic API compressors, and more. Tap into the
legend, with API's The Box.




API The Box Small-format Recording/Mixing Console at a Glance:

Analog warmth - optimized for the digital era
Record and mix in style
With The Box, you are master of your studio
API - a tradition of high-quality audio


Analog warmth - optimized for the digital era
Can't
afford a big API console for your DAW-based studio? No worries.
Designed for professional project studios and production facilities, The
Box gives you that classic API analog mojo at a much more down-to-earth
price. Optimized for the digital era, The Box delivers all the
functionality you don't get from your DAW, including mic preamps, input
signal processing, a high-quality mix bus, cue sends with talkback,
monitor control, and much more, while eliminating the redundant
capacities of larger boards. You get the legendary all-discrete API
sound in a compact, cost-effective package.

Record and mix in style
For
recording, The Box gives you four input channels. Channels 1 and 2 are
equipped with preamp, filter, 550A EQ, insert, assignable compression,
and output routing. Channels 3 and 4 deliver the same features, but for
an additional measure of flexibility, each has a 500 Series slot in
place of the onboard EQ. When it's time to mix, The Box gives you 16
dedicated summing input channels, as well as the four input channels,
for a total of 20 channels. All channels, input and summing, sport a
fader, mute, pan pot, program bus assignment, insert, solo, solo safe,
and aux/cue sends. Unity-gain buttons on the summing channels let you
bypass the faders and deliver the signal straight to the pan pots - a
very useful feature when you're mixing DAW tracks that already have
fader and mute automation. And speaking of those 100mm long-throw
faders, did we mention how incredible they feel?

With The Box, you are master of your studio
The
Box's comprehensive master section gives you controls for program bus
insert and external inputs, aux and cue masters, solo master, VU meters,
talkback, and a full-featured monitor section that supports two stereo
speaker systems plus headphones. As a bonus, the master section includes
two API 527 compressors that are assignable to the input channels when
you're recording, and to the program bus when you're mixing.

API - a tradition of high-quality audio
In
1968, Automated Processes Inc. began building quality consoles for
broadcast applications. Soon, the company's products found favor with
recording studios, and a string of industry-leading advancements
(including computerized console automation, the first VCA, and more)
followed. API produced the 2520 amplifier, one of the most famous
op-amps in the recording industry, and their consoles and products found
homes in such iconic studio facilities as The Hit Factory, Record
Plant, Ocean Way, and Sunset Sound, among others. In fact, there are
over 700 classic API consoles around the globe - many of which are still
in use. And the company certainly isn't resting on its laurels; today's
API products give you the same unbeatable combination of utility,
innovation, and great sound.

API The Box Small-format Recording/Mixing Console Features:

Two input channels with mic/instrument/line preamp, HP filter, and 500 Series slot with 550A EQ
Two input channels with mic/instrument/line preamp, HP filter, and 500 slot
Two compressors, assignable to input channels or program bus with stereo link
16 summing channels (20 channels during mix)
Stereo program bus with master fader, insert, and external input
One stereo and mono auxiliary sends/buses
Stereo cue send/bus and 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


Record and mix with legendary API analog mojo, in The Box!



Specification
Detail


Type
Analog


Channels
20


Inputs - Mic Preamps
4 x XLR


Inputs - Line
4 x TRS (input channels); 2 x DB25 (summing channels 1-8 and 9-16)


Inputs - Other
4 x TRS (instrument); 1 x DB25 (external 2-track inputs)


Outputs - Main
2 x XLR (program); 4 x XLR (main, alt CR outputs)


Outputs - Other
1 x DB25 (4 aux outputs / 2 cue outputs)


Headphones
1 x 1/4" stereo


Send/Return I/O
20 x TRS insert sends; 20 x TRS returns; separate I/O for 500 Series slots


Phantom Power
4


EQ Bands
3-band, sweepable (x 2)


Aux Sends
4 x sends fed by 2 mono aux sends (1/2), and 1 stereo aux/cue send (3/4)


Busses/Groups
2


Faders
20 x 100mm throw


Channel Inserts
Yes


Effects
No


Talkback
Yes


Rackmountable
Not rackmountable


Manufacturer Part Number
The Box Console






































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