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The 20 input Electrodyne and Quad-Eight consoles pretty much ruled in the US during the brief 16 track era. Everybody I knew preferred them to Neves. We had 20 input Electrodynes in each of our three mix-rooms and our LA studios all had first generation Quad-Eights. The APIs became common as people upgraded to 24 track because everybody loved the 550 equalizer. It was arguably the first built into a console that was considered comparable to the best outboard eq. API was also supposed to be about to deliver an automation system that, to the best of my knowledge, never materialized.
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