The API 1608-II Recording & Mixing Console - Inside the Console at Cellar Door Studios

What gear do you use for recording in music production?

hmmm I think a pro console has matching EQs if you want to produce like a pro....

Classic Warren... "So walk us through the console." - then Warren proceeds to walk us through the console. 😂 I kind of find that to be an English thing, to ask questions and then immediately answer them yourself.

Can you interview someone with a Neve Bcm 10 & somebody with a Rupert Neve 5088 and somebody with a SSL origin next? I keep rewatching this video over n over. Buying a console is a hard decision there’s a few options haha

Look at those burns!!!

Tgis console is INCREDIBLE. Thanks !

Dan Zimbelman told me I was going to buy one of these when they first came out. 😅

I met Dave at the Inter-Bee show in Japan last year. Great guy. 👍🏻

What album does Warren say he made on this console near the end? Where can i hear this thing?

Even the Yamaha OTR96 (2002) and Avid 003 Factory (2007) had capacitative faders! 😮😊😊🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️

700 units sold? How can that be economically viable! Lovely product though....

The console is so nice!! 🎉

58 grand 😢

And then I saw the price tag! Ouch! Still want one, though. 😮

Very nice! How would stand with a Neve BCM 10?

I have a Soundcraft Ghost :(

Nice video, as usual! What's the name of the white midi controller at the left part of the table?

What an incredible console! Man if I could afford it I would get it in a heart beat. Really looking forward to those mix breakdowns!!

What gear do I use? Nothing like this beautiful board. Just gorgeous. I can only dream -- thanks Warren!

Question for Warren: like a lot of people, I exclusively use an interface box to plug mics into ProTools. So I’m using whatever preamps are in that all-in-one interface box. (an Onyx Blackbird by Mackie) How much difference, and what sort of difference, might I get from sticking an external mic pre before the interface?

Thank You! I love API stuff and there just aren’t enough videos out there about the consoles. If channel count was the issue, what are the main differences between this and the 2448?

Nice console, cool video (as always!).. But come on, german broadcast- and recordingstudios are using this "change a module, when it fails" since the 40's?!? All Siemens, telefunken, Neumann stuff works this way....

For lol those on the forums who swear they hear a difference sometimes huge between the pres. Well this just makes you all seem a bit full of it. Lol. Thanks for the video. Always loved API

Very feature rich which is sort of a negative in my eyes. Seems like you could make the same console without all the automation and motorized faders for about one fifth the price.

I suppose it's a giveaway for the console 😂

Nice board!!!

Maybe geeky, but a series talking through classic consoles that many of us will never see would be great! How the EQ and comp sections etc set them apart. Pressing play now!

$60,000 ....there HAS to be a way to make this at a lower price.... Yes I know it's not going to be $5K, but this elitism helps no one. This is MORE than most TESLAS!

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I want one nowwwwwww

I bought a 2448 from Dave for my previous spot in Milwaukee, Wire & Vice. Dude is legit good people, loved working with him and will put another API in my new room here in Seattle when I get to that point... probably a 1608-II as shown here. Incredible consoles, the automation is phenomenal and dead easy to work with.

Thats a great mixing board to do your mixing on. Mixing Great stuff... on that thing.. that thing it is... an API

If I ever bought a console, this would probably be it👍

I wish I was young again in this day and age....not really I would have missed the 60's but I dont remember much back then either wink wink haha so much technology love the book Warren almost done going through it and have made my notes! You are so knowledgable I wish I could have been an apprentice- so much to know and yet I'm all in the Box- would love to have learned the console aspect of it and hardware I feel that would have been more enlightening knowing that first before going all Box like Scheps!

a api 1608 what dreams are made from.. and the greatest sounding mixxes ..one word ..unreal

Wow!! Great people with a great console!

No problems getting the faders to contact-conduct considering the amount of nose grease on your fingers. Ha, just ribbing you Warren! Great video really enjoyed the console.

I cant speak about the API mixers but I love the UAD API Channel strip I rent on ocassion from Spark. I use it with Steven Slate Trigger on Drums along with SSL Drumstrip. So far so Good! Cheers Warren

Tasty looking console, with old and new tech working seamlessly together. Whats not to like. Thanks very much, great video.

OMG what a treat this is. All this information!!!!
Thank you for sharing!!!!!!

I can only imagine how much this thing costs :/

Omg I want this!!!

Awesome!! There is just something special (to my ears) about the API sound.

Now that's what I call a 500 series rack! Got me drooling

Nice console.
I'm playing a drinking game where I don't take a drink if Warren mentions The Fray. Coming up on 8 years sober this year!

So one thing I don't quite understand with recording with analogue consoles with DAWs... When you use the Direct Out on each Channel, you can't actually use the EQ and the Compressor, because you take the signal right after the gain stage, right? So is this something people actually do? Or do they instead use the insert sends to go into their AD/Audio-Interface? But when you do that, you will still get the signal before the fader. Honestely, I've been recording for years but since I never really used analogue consoles, this kinda confuses me.

good to see prince harry making music!!!

have api the box 2 very nice sounding

by far one of my favorite consoles of all time.. just feels amazing to sit in front of and work on.