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Key Features
- Selling your equipment to Gear4music is straightforward
- Just click "Trade-in your gear" above, answer some quick questions about your item and we'll tell you how much you'll get.
- We'll arrange to collect the item from you, ensuring its journey to us is fully insured.
- Once we receive your gear, we'll let you know.
- When the item has been checked and verified, within a few days you'll get paid!
Selling Your API 2500 Stereo Bus Compressor
Trade in your API 2500 Stereo Bus Compressor with Gear4music. Whether you’re refreshing your studio setup or looking to modernise your workflow, trading in with us is a straightforward way to make room for new ideas. The API 2500 is a classic for mix bus compression, so if your setup’s changing, we’ll make sure it goes to someone who’ll appreciate its character and punch.
If you’re exploring new options, you might want to try a mastering-grade compressor, a versatile channel strip, or a hybrid analogue-digital unit that fits today’s production styles. Whatever direction you’re heading, we’ll help you trade confidently and easily with Gear4music.
Product Ref: 356346
Full Description
View Full DescriptionMono Functionality and Auto-Makeup Gain
The API 2500 provides a variable link between the left and right channels, making it easier to work with your mono sources. The auto-makeup gain button on the output stage allows you to control the threshold or ratio, while automatically maintaining a constant output level. This gives you added versatility when it comes to treating audio.
API Audio History
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.
Features
- API 2520 Op Amplifier
- Variable threshold between -20dBu and +10dBu
- Selectable ratio, attack and release times
- Patented THRUST® selectable high-pass filter before RMS detector
- Variable link between left and right channels
- Old "feed back" or new "feed forward" compression
- Soft, medium or hard knee for easy to sharp compression
- Auto or manual gain make up
- 1/4" balanced side chain inputs
- Output clips at +28dBu
Specifications
- Channels: 2
- Controls: Threshold, Attach, Ratio, Release
- Threshold: -20 dB to 10 dB
- Ratio: 1:1 to Inf.
- Side Chain Inserts: Yes
- Inputs: 2 x XLR
- Outputs: 2 x XLR
- Sidechain I/O: 2 x 1/4''
- Rack Spaces: 1U
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