2448: The API Console Legacy Continues
Designed and crafted to the same high standards as the 1608, the Legacy AXS, and Vision consoles, API's 2448 is a dual-signal path, inline recording console offering an impressively robust feature set that includes Dual Inputs on each channel, Stereo Returns, and optionally, API's new cross-platform Final Touch fader automation system. The 2448 expands API's powerful range of world-class analog recording consoles and continues API's half century legacy of combining professional reliability and functionality with the inimitable warmth and punch of the API sound.
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API — the legendary American console company
No American console company is more iconic than API. Launched in 1968 by Saul Walker, 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 innovations (including the 500 Series module, the first VCA, computerized console automation, 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, Sunset Sound, and many others. In fact, there are over 700 vintage 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. That's why at Sweetwater, the name API commands reverence.
API 2448 24-channel Analog Recording Console Features:
- Available in 24, 32, and 40 channel frame sizes
- Each channel equipped with mic pre and equalizer
- Accepts API 500 Series equalizers
- Each channel features dual inputs (rotary fader, pan, solo, mute, safe, and flip)
- 56 channels available to the mix bus in a 24-channel frame
- 8 multitrack buses
- 8 auxiliary buses
- 1 stereo bus
- 4 stereo returns, 100mm faders (manual or automated) with multitrack and stereo bus assign
- Full center section control
- 5.1 surround center section monitoring
- Classic analog metering
- Global 0dB fader bypass
- 529 stereo bus compressor (optional)
- Comprehensive rear-panel I/O connectivity
- Compatibility with optional Final Touch automation system
