Vintage Recording Equipment Archive

The Apogee Mini-Me, introduced in 2002, is a portable two-channel, 24-bit analogue-to-digital converter incorporating microphone and instrument preamplifiers, selectable sample rates up to 96 kHz, and integrated dynamics processing. Designed for professional studio and location recording, it combines Apogee’s conversion technology with Soft Limit, Push-IT compression and limiting, UV22HR word-length reduction, and AES/EBU and S/PDIF digital outputs. An optional USB interface provides direct computer recording and monitoring.

The Apogee Trak2 is a professional two-channel microphone preamplifier and 24-bit/96kHz analogue-to-digital conversion system introduced in 2000. Combining digitally controlled microphone preamps with high-resolution conversion, Apogee’s Soft Limit and Soft Saturate processing, UV22HR word-length reduction and flexible digital routing, the Trak2 was designed as an integrated recording front end for professional studios.

The ART Multiverb III was a professional stereo digital multi-effects processor built upon the earlier Multiverb processors. It offered an expanded range of reverberation, delay, chorus, flanging, pitch transposition and sampling effects, with the ability to combine up to four effects simultaneously. Featuring 110 factory presets, 90 user memory locations, comprehensive MIDI control and a flexible effects architecture, the ART Multiverb III provided recording studios and musicians with a versatile digital processing system in a compact rackmount format.