Paul Wolff (audio engineer)

Paul Wolff is an American electronics engineer and entrepreneur, who is a designer of professional audio recording equipment.

[4] Wolff was born in Traverse City, Michigan northwest of Cadillac to Gene and Pat (née Kasler).

[9] Paul Wolff began his career as the front of house sound engineer for The Bayou, a venue and nightclub in Washington, D.C. for performers including Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Dire Straits, and others.

In 1978, Wolff began working in the console business at Datatronix just after the company had acquired Automated Processes, Inc., (API).

[10] In 1987 Wolff, the API president, announced the successful conversion of manufacturing the 2520 op-amp to an automated assembly "drastically reduces costs without affecting the sound at all".

[11][12][13] In 1999, upon the sale of API Audio Products to the ATI Group, best known as manufacturers of public address consoles, they incorporated under the original "Automated Processes" name.