Legendary API Sound and Summing Power
API’s The Box and The Box 2 summing mixers have been hugely popular at Sweetwater, but not everyone has the room for a console, regardless of size. Enter the API ASM164 rackmount summing mixer, which gives you 16 analog summing channels in a robust 19-inch, 2U chassis. The ASM164 is spec’d with top-drawer components, including API’s signature 2010 and 2120 opamps, and offers convenience features like global 0dB channel level control bypass, dual stereo program buses with flexible channel assignments, and inserts on every channel. Designed for professional project studios, home studios, post-production houses, and recording facilities of all kinds, the ASM164 delivers the legendary API sound and summing power in a compact, high-performance package.
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Built for the long haul
Since the 1970s, API’s large-format consoles have been prized for their robust, MIL-Spec build quality. This is borne out by the impressive number of vintage APIs still in daily service around the world. Back in the Golden Age of Analog, pro audio equipment was meticulously assembled and wired by hand using fully discrete circuit designs and military-grade components — factors to which the timelessly superior sound and performance of coveted vintage gear are often attributed. And that is precisely how API builds their consoles and outboard gear today. Your API ASM164 is built to reliably deliver superior performance and sound, session after session, over decades of faithful service.
API: an American pro audio legend
Launched in 1968 by Saul Walker, Automated Processes Inc. began building high-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 its 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. Clearly, the company isn’t resting on its laurels; today’s API products give you the same unbeatable combination of utility, innovation, and stellar sound. That’s why, at Sweetwater, the name API commands reverence.
API ASM164 Features:
- Rackmount analog summing mixer
- 16 analog summing channels
- Balanced, line-level, DB-25 connectors
- Global 0dB channel level control bypass
- Proprietary API 2510 input opamps
- Signature API 2520 opamps and proprietary output transformers
- Insert send/return per channel
- 4-segment LED level meters
- 2 stereo program buses: Mix-A and Mix-B
- Each channel assignable to Mix-A and/or Mix-B
- Continuously variable panning with center detent
- 31-step detented Level control
- Balanced stereo external input (assignable to Mix-A and/or Mix-B)
- Analog stereo Output level VU meters
- Comprehensive rear-panel connections with balanced in/out
- External power supply
- Backed by API’s 5-year parts, 1-year factory service warranty
