API 2500

Records it appears on · 3

• Get Lucky

  Daft Punk · Random Access Memories, 2013

  • Drum kit · Mix effectsVerifiedParallel compression across the whole drum kitSettings: Parallel on the drum bus
• Treat You Better

  Shawn Mendes · Illuminate, 2016

  • Drums and percussion · Mix effectsVerifiedCompressor fed in parallel from the desk for drums and percussion, to help the bottom end hit hard.
• Speak Now

  Taylor Swift · Album, 2010

  • Mix bus and two-mix · Mix effectsReportedCompressor over the two-mix; the model is given by the magazine's caption, while Niebank says only API compressor.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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