Hi folks, first post here, so sorry if this is the wrong section. I’m in the process of designing and eventually building a 16 channel mixing console - 8 mono channels and 4 stereo channels. Each channel will be input balanced via THAT 1206 chips, sent to a gain stage controlled by a 2520 type op amp, then to a high/low baxandall shelving filter in a 2520 type op amp, then to a summing section with switchable output stages / transformers for different coloration options. The transformers have been sourced and the options will be Neve style with the BA283 line driver to carnhill transformer (maybe switchable between the 2n3055 and a germanium power transistor), or API style with 2520 to a steel cinemag CMOB-2S transformer, or a 990 to a high nickel cinemag CMOB-1H transformer. There are 13 channels in total including the Mix Buss.
This is a lot of stuff obviously and I need an enclosure that can hold it all. I specifically would like a desktop unit so it can have faders and knobs for the pan, eqs, trim. I found a 20”x11” hammond enclosure that might be able to fit it all with 1.53” per channel, but there’s a minimum order of 10 units with milling and printing. I’m planning to just build one for myself and I wasn’t planning to start a business. I’m an electronics guy and don’t really know anything about the enclosure side of things. Does anyone have any ideas how to properly get a mixing console enclosure built, drilled, and printed? I’m totally open and in fact partial to having modular channels, but I wouldn’t know where to begin getting that metalwork done!
