The Box Grows Up
API’s The Box summing mixer and recording console has been very popular at Sweetwater. Now The Box 2 continues that legacy, offering audio pros worldwide — from professional home recording studios to commercial production facilities — legendary API big-console sound in a compact package, along with expanded flexibility and options for the modern studio workflow. The updated Box console features eight input channels with mic preamp, line input, and highpass filter; eight 500 Series slots, and LED metering for each of its 24 summing channels. The Box 2 still provides the same comprehensive center section, monitoring, and rear-panel connectivity as its predecessor, as well as the popular 0dB bypass switch on each summing channel.
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Classic analog warmth and punch
Can’t afford a big API console for your DAW-based studio? No worries. Sporting the same circuitry and performance as API’s esteemed large-format Vision, Legacy Plus, and 1608 boards, The Box 2 is a small-format solution for any studio with a limited budget or space. Designed for professional project studios and production facilities, The Box is perfect for enhancing clinical-sounding digital stems and mixes with classic API analog warmth and punch.
Optimized for the digital era
Optimized as an audio production console 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, comprehensive rear-panel connections with balanced inputs and outputs, 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.
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 a stereo bus compressor, assignable to the program bus or input channels 1–4.
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 2 Summing Mixer and Recording Console Features:
- 8 input channels with mic preamp, line input, and highpass filter
- 8 x 500 Series slots (1 per input channel)
- Direct out on input channels
- Onboard stereo bus compressor, assignable to program bus or input channels 1–4
- Instrument direct inputs on channels 1–4
- 16 summing channels (24 channels during mixdown)
- 0dB bypass switch on each summing channel
- 4-segment LED metering on each summing channel
- Stereo program bus with master fader, insert, and external input
- 1 stereo and 2 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 2 stereo monitor systems
- Talkback system
- Comprehensive rear-panel connections with balanced inputs and outputs
- Integrated power supply
