Features:

• Complete API input strip with bussing
• API 2520 Op-Amp
• API 212L Mic Preamp, 225L Compressor
• Re-issue of the famed 550A EQ
• Four Aux sends, Pre or Post fader assignable
• Four busses
• Stereo bus with internal rotary fader
• Solo, SIP, Mute, Insert, Polarity, and Compressor Link
• Complete patching facilities on rear panel
• External fader jack
• Three 7 segment LED VU displays
• Output clips at +30 dBm

The API 7600 Input Module offers studios of all sizes a whole new range of options without sacrificing quality. The 7600 strip forms the basis of a build-as-you-need-it, high quality recording console. It is the perfect choice for project studios who want high performance console sound, but have limited channel needs or budget constraints, and professional studios that want to add more channels to their existing desk through the addition of a side car.

The API 7600 fits into one rack space unit and it includes a genuine API mic pre, a compressor and a real 550A EQ right out of the glory days of rock ‘n roll. The 7600 mic pre is the same 212L mic pre used in the Legacy Consoles. The EQ is an exact re-issue of the famed 550A, offering 3 bands of EQ with 7 frequency choices per band. The compressor is the 225L, the same one found in the all-discrete Legacy Console currently in production.

The 7600 comes complete with an internal power supply, and is the basis for building a 4, 8, or 16 channel professional sounding API console.

Discrete 4 Band EQ

Features

• 4 bands of our famous sounding equalization
• Each band offers 7 API selected frequency centers
• Reciprocal and repeatable filtering
• 12 dB of boost/cut per band
• EQ Band 1 and 4 offer shelf/peak switching
• “Proportional Q” narrows filter Q at extremes
• Traditional API fully discrete circuit design
• High headroom +30 dB clip level
• Re-issue of 1967 API 550 EQ with an extra band

The API 550 EQ played a major part in the history of music recording in the USA during the 60′s and 70′s. Originally conceived for use in API’s consoles, this latest 550 ”B” version is a continuation of the original 1967 550 through the 550A with one additional filter band and several new frequencies. Incorporating API’s exclusive circuitry and proprietary components (such as the legendary API 2520 op-amp), the 550B artfully blends the past with the present. So many hit records still depend on the unique 550 sound, that the 550B will be an invaluable tool you will turn to again and again. The API 550B—unlike any other you will ever use.

Many EQ’s today offer a huge assortment of complex features, but the API 550B provides exactly the right number of controls to the professional engineer. Deceptively simple at first glance, the 550B’s four EQ bands are overlapped significantly to aid in dual roles as problem solver and sweetening device. Each band offers 7 switchable filter frequencies spanning 4 to 5 octaves, selected through experience by a “who’s who” list of the industry’s most proficient engineers. This re-issue design has been taken from the original blue prints and spec control drawings from the API archives.

Making use of “API Proportional-Q”, a design introduced by API in the 60′s, the 550B intuitively widens the filter bandwidth at minimal settings and narrows it at higher settings—without the need for additional bandwidth controls. This feature minimizes the “phase-shift” sound found in many equalizers. The reciprocal nature of the 550B enables the user to “undo” what has been done previously.

The benefits of the API 550B are most obvious to those who work with EQ on a continuous basis. The 550B’s ability to affect or reverse tonal modifications is perhaps the most important feature. If major tonal restructuring is required, the extraordinary headroom made possible with API’s 2520 op-amp offers predictable and gentle “analog” performance under duress. With a surprisingly wide range of tonal variations, you can do no better than the API 550B.

The Channel in a Box (CIB) was the first module in the Pure Path range of creative signal processing devices. Inspired by the success of the 9098i, the no compromise design of the CIB combines Mic Pre-Amp, Line Amplifier, Hi and Lo Pass Filters, 4 Band Equaliser and Classically Inspired Compressor, all carefully designed into a 1U-rack space.