API 3288 (1984?)

Almost nothing is documented about the API 3288. What little survives comes from a single classified ad in DB-Magazine (October 1984, p.61), which listed an “API 3288 console” for sale at $39,500. The ad tells us it was a mixing console. Its channel count, feature set and exact production years are unrecorded. It appeared alongside other pro-audio gear of the period (Harrison consoles, EMT echo plates, Studer multitrack machines), which suggests it was aimed at commercial recording studios. No service manuals, schematics or spec sheets are known to exist in public archives.

Product type: Mixing console
Documented price (used, 1984): $39,500
Year of classified listing: 1984