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SOUTH WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT - MAY 2008: Telefunken USA, LLC has installed an API 1608 discrete analog recording console at its newly expanded
headquarters in Connecticut. The mixing console has been installed in a new product development and test facility as part of a 2,500 square-foot
expansion of the microphone manufacturer's corporate offices.
The API 1608 is the centerpiece for a brand new research, test and design
studio facility here in South Windsor, Connecticut, just outside Hartford, explains Alan Veniscofsky, director of operations at Telefunken USA. "We use
it in the room where we test every single microphone and every single piece
of gear that we build. We also use the same room as a studio. We're very
pleased with the 1608."
Telefunken USA recreates classic recording microphones engineered to precise
historical specifications. The API 1608, installed in early March, following
the recent completion of the first phase of a very large studio laboratory
build-out at the location, is central to the testing of finished products
and new designs. "It's wired and hooked up in a traditional manner," Toni
Fishman, owner/CEO Telefunken USA, reports. "But we use some of the
additional bussing and aux routing not as a traditional studio set-up, but
more geared toward testing devices and frequency response, and things that
we use for testing and building microphones."
Fishman selected the 1608 based on past experience with API and from the
opinions of a number of the Telefunken USA staff that are also active in the
recording industry. He was very pleased with an older API 1604 restoration
he completed a few years ago and has always trusted the API sound and
design, dating back to when his company Vintage Tones was a dealer in the
late 1990s. "Some of the people who have worked here over the past two or
three years, plus other engineers, and I have had great success using API
consoles on various projects," he comments. "We had a Neve console that was
great, but a little too colored and too vintage. We wanted the best
representation of what was out there and is modern."
The API 1608 incorporates the company's discrete electronics topology and is
built to the same exacting standards as the flagship Vision and Legacy
Series consoles, the standard model having sixteen input channels, eight
buses, eight aux sends, eight reverb returns and full center section
facilities. The standard mainframe also includes twelve 550A three-band
equalizers and four 560 ten-band graphic EQ modules with space available for
eight additional 500 Series modules. The support of 500 Series modules was
another point in the 1608's favor. "You'll probably see Telefunken USA
develop some 500 Series units over the next 18 months or so," Veniscofsky
confides.
Automated Processes, Inc. remains the leader in analog recording gear, with
the Vision surround production and Legacy Series recording consoles, the DSM
Series rack-mounted mixers, and the classic line of modular signal
processing equipment.
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