API Audio wants to take it's legendary studio knowhow to a larger audience; to this end, they've announced a new product line -- Arsenal Audio -- at Summer NAMM 2008.

According to API:

"Arsenal Audio products feature robust design standards in a solid, reliable package, providing user confidence in both the audio performance and the build quality. Each unit is hand assembled and designed to provide years of great sounding, analog audio performance at a surprisingly affordable price."

Three new products will be the first in the new line:

Arsenal R20
A dual-channel microphone preamp featuring low-noise, high-quality inputs for both mic and instrument in a rack-mount chassis with internal power supply. Each channel includes rotary gain control plus individual toggle switches for phantom power, phase, pad and mic/instrument input selection. Each channel will provide up to 55dB of gain for microphone level signals, or a maximum of 31dB of gain at the high-impedance instrument inputs. Each channel's pad switch attenuates the mic input by -20dB, or the instrument input by -10dB. Each channel's output will be monitored via traditional analog VU meters with separate peak indicators.

Arsenal R24
A two channel, four-band parametric EQ modeled after the ASPI Model 562 EQ module. All four bands will be frequency- and gain-adjustable, and will each feature a peak/dipping parametric design with 12dB of boost/cut per band. EQ in/out will be controlled by classic toggle switches, and a custom transformer-balanced output will provide extended headroom of +23dB.

Arsenal V14
The same EQ circuit as the R24, albeit in a single-channel box, and format-designed for compatibility in API's VPR 500 modular rackmount and lunchbox systems.

"We're excited about establishing a new brand that compliments API so well," said API President Larry Droppa in the Arsenal Audio press release. "Arsenal Audio allows us to offer different technologies, and a different set of creative tools, to help people make music, which is exactly what API has been doing for decades."