Tonelux Information

Tonelux (www.tonelux.com) was created in 2003 after Paul Wolff, previous owner of API (Api Audio Products or Automated Processes, Inc) sold the company, then left the new company to explore a new direction in recording systems. Mr. Wolff purchased API in 1985 and through that period, designed and built more than 30 all discrete recording and mixing consoles, including the Legacy, Legacy Plus and the last console, the Vision, which was a complete surround recording/mixing console. Other innovative products included the 200 series outboard line, the famed 2500 bus compressor and one of the first external bussing mixers, the 8200 series. Wolff left those products behind as he saw a shift in the professional recording industry that called for a more compact, affordable recording product line with superior quality and tone. With the advent of the Digital Audio Workstation, recording was changing direction rapidly and the need to change direction in other areas was required. Having a visionary outlook at the industry, Mr. Wolff created a whole new product line with a whole new concept in design, which in only a few years has been used on many high profile recording and mixing projects and is rapidly becoming the go-to line for every aspect of recording. The Tonelux idea is to allow an artist or engineer the ability to custom build any size or format console like unit from 8 to 80 channels without any quality or tonal compromises. Paul Wolff began to see that with the change in recording direction, artists and engineers were re-inventing the process much like it was in the early days of recording where they were writing the rules as they recorded the band. This is why Mr. Wolff says, "It's like 1967 all over again". He also feels that the industry is not dying, it is growing from new roots into a whole new plant, and those of us who take care of the plant will reap the benefits of its fruit.