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API 200 Series Usage

This document provides information on the 205L Direct Module, 215L Hi/Lo Pass Filter, 225L Compressor, and 235L Noise Gate/Expander modules. The 205L is designed to "thin out and make bright" a guitar or bass signal. It contains controls for input level, output level, tone shaping, and adding impedance. The 215L is a simple passive hi-pass and lo-pass filter intended to reduce leakage or noise in signals. The 225L is a compressor that can subtly or heavily compress signals using controls for threshold, ratio, attack, release and knee characteristics. The 235L is a noise gate and expander that can reduce noise below an adjustable threshold using controls for threshold

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API 200 Series Usage

This document provides information on the 205L Direct Module, 215L Hi/Lo Pass Filter, 225L Compressor, and 235L Noise Gate/Expander modules. The 205L is designed to "thin out and make bright" a guitar or bass signal. It contains controls for input level, output level, tone shaping, and adding impedance. The 215L is a simple passive hi-pass and lo-pass filter intended to reduce leakage or noise in signals. The 225L is a compressor that can subtly or heavily compress signals using controls for threshold, ratio, attack, release and knee characteristics. The 235L is a noise gate and expander that can reduce noise below an adjustable threshold using controls for threshold

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205L DIRECT MODULE

“Thin it out and make it bright”


BRIGHT: Brightens the high end

METER: Output Level, VU scale


GAIN: Input Level Control

THIN+BRIGHT FAT+BRIGHT

TONE: THIN to FAT


(Fat is Flat) 6dB
FLAT THIN+no BRIGHT

-20 PAD: -20 dB PAD switch for high level inputs


HI-Z IN: 1/4” Hi-Z input
Guitar level to Line level
100K LOAD: Adds a 100K load for changing the
tone of a guitar or bass pickup (coil types)

ON: Turns ON the signal


FAT/THIN: The FAT/THIN knob is designed to take out the mud in the lower strings of a guitar or bass, evening out the
relationship of the lows to the highs. With the addition of the BRIGHT switch, you can add clarity the same way as a guitar
amp bright switch would. The input impedance is 470K ohms, like a tube amp input stage, preventing pickup loading. The
LOAD switch adds a 100K ohm load to the input, changing the tone of a coil pickup slightly.

215L HI/LO PASS FILTER


“Schweet”

LO-PASS: 500 to 20KHz at 6 dB/oct

NOTE: The filter design is a simple passive


circuit, using the API 2510, 2520 and the 20Hz HI and LO PASS Ranges 20KHz
same discrete buffers used in the 550 series
EQs.

HI-PASS: 20 to 600Hz at 12 dB/oct

ON: Hard Wire Bypass

FILTERING: This filter is very gradual, at 6dB/oct for the LO-Pass filter and 12dB/oct for the HI-Pass filter. Its primary design
is intended for reducing the low-end leakage into a Hi-Hat or overhead mic, or reducing the noise and flap on a bass guitar.
Basically, it is not for “fixing” problems, but for contouring the response of a signal without the drastic curves of many EQs and
their associated phase shift.
225L COMPRESSOR
“Start with all the knobs at 12:00 NOON”
ATTACK TIME: Fast/Slow/Medium
(Slow is normal)

THRESHOLD: +10 to -20 dBu

NOTE: Adjusting either or both controls will


not effect the output level. Much like the 525 METER: Shows Amount of Compression
Ceiling control, the 225L Auto-Compensates in an expanded scale.
the output level. Listen and check with the
ON button. It is very subtle!

Ratio: 0 to Infinity HARD: Sharp Knee at the Threshold

SOFT: Gradual Knee at the Threshold


NEW: “VCA” type Compression
“Feed-Forward”
REL: Release Time OLD: Classic type Compression
“Feed-Back”

ON: Hard Wire Bypass


COMPRESSION: The 225 can compress in a very undetectable way when the RATIO is set at 2:1 and you are in the SOFT
and OLD mode. Likewise, when the RATIO is set at INF, and the HARD and NEW positions are selected, the compressor can
smash what ever is put into it. Sometimes it can be deceiving as to how much is being compressed because of the Auto-
Compensation of the output level, as you never get to hear how much you “turned it down” and how much you had to make
back up. Fatness in only skin deep...

235L NOISE GATE/EXPANDER


“Start with all the knobs at 12:00 NOON”
ATTACK TIME: Fast/Normal

THRESHOLD: +25 to -15 dBu

NOTE: The DEPTH control is expanded METER: Shows Amount of Noise Reduction
from 0 to -9dB in the first half of rotation and
-10 to -80 in the second half of rotation for
better control of vocals, etc.

Depth: 0 to -80 dB EXP: 2:1 Expander, up to the Threshold

GTE: Gate Mode, ON at Threshold


HLD: Release knob is HOLD on time

REL: Release Time REL: Release knob is GATE decay time

ON: Hard Wire Bypass

EXPANDING: With the 235 in the GTE (gate) mode, adjust the DEPTH control for the desired amount of gain reduction. Set
the THRESHOLD so the gate comes on at the point that you want the gate to be fully open, but NOT at the quietest level that
will trigger the signal (like you would in the gate mode). Switch to EXP, and the signal will “sneak” up to the preset threshold
level and will then will be fully on, reducing the noise below the threshold without losing any subtle portions of the signal.

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