API 2448 Console Golddiggers Studio In the late 1960s, Saul Walker and Lou Lindauer co-founded Automated Processes, Inc.—better known as API—to improve on the early modular console concepts pioneered in the 1950s. The brand soon developed a series of distinctive consoles built around its own interchangeable modules, including the now-abundant 500 Series processors. The flexibility of these modular desks appealed to studio owners keen to keep up with the rapidly evolving studio technology of the time, and the crisp, in-your-face sound of API preamps and EQs proved perfectly suited to pop and rock music. Continue reading →