API Introduces New 2448 Recording and Mixing Console

API announces the debut of the new 2448 Recording and Mixing Console, presented for the first time at this year's AES Convention in New York. Bridging the gap between the company's 1608 and AXS consoles, the new 2448 responds to the industry's requirement for a smaller, compact dual-signal path analog recording console.

The 2448 offers 24 fully featured channels for multitrack recording and 56 channels for mixing, providing audio professionals the advantages of a large format console in a more compact and affordable package. The console is available in 24, 32, and 40 channel frame sizes, and offers a powerful feature set including dual inputs on each channel, four stereo returns and optionally, API's new cross-platform Final Touch fader automation system.

Customers are already taking delivery of the 2448 with eight consoles sold prior to AES, the company says.

"Like every API product, the new 2448 was carefully designed with the user in mind," says API president and owner Larry Droppa. "Given the hundreds of consoles we've sold over the past few years, I have every confidence that the 2448 will meet -- and exceed -- the very high standards of excellence and performance that the audio community expects of API."