The design is final — enclosures are off to production
We have finally finalized the look of TENSA — both the mixer and the power supply. So this update comes with the first renders of the finished design.
The wooden parts of the mixer will be available made to order — three wood and finish options, to the owner's taste.
The power supply design is complete. The enclosures are ordered — two test units have been manufactured and are already on their way to us from the factory.
The mixer enclosure is next. The full production package is ready — 3D models and panel drawings — and the order is going out.
And then there is the silkscreen. From the outside it looks like the easy part: just put the labels on the panel. In reality it is a deceptively hard task. First you spend a long time settling the design itself — every label, every line, every position. Then comes the serious work: converting all of it into curves. Not just any curves — proper ones, built as closed contours, so the artwork is actually manufacturable. There is a lot of quiet, meticulous work in it — and it is done: the artwork is final, no more revisions.
Meanwhile, the workshop is filling up with components. Several boxes of Neutrik connectors. Ten assembled power supply boards already waiting for installation. The transformers are on their way to us from Poland right now. A reel of quality German eight-core cable. We do not cut corners on a single component — only the very best goes in.
The enclosure design is now settled, so two things come next: finding a wood supplier for the three finish options, and the final revisions of the mixer's main PCB so it fits the new enclosure perfectly.
In this post: the first renders of the final design — the mixer, its enclosure, and the power supply. The process is moving — and moving well.
Take a look on the latest renders: