I can taste the finish line... The longest running design.

The design of my Trinity channel strip started in September of 2015.  I'm literally days away from completing the design.  The past few days have been devoted to finalizing the front panel layout.  The next few will be the back panel layout... and then its on to designing the packaging!  The electronics aspect was completed in full less than a week ago with the addition of a brand new control - presence.  This is an additional knob located in the EQ section of the channel strip.  It provides a boost-only shelving control of 15kHz and up.  I deemed this as absolutely necessary after hearing it in action.  It makes the EQ section far more versatile.  I've used Trinity prototypes for a long time in the studio now.  I have been using the equalizers for mixing and have found them to be rather limited.  One area was they couldn't do enough top end boost with dark ribbon mics and other dark sounds that I would like to sound bright.  The new presence control alleviates that issue, while surprising me with its very pleasing tone.  I was surprised because unlike the rest of EQ circuitry or any EQ I ever made before, the presence control is an active EQ filter.  Complex tone shaping of the upper mid to upper high frequency range can now be accomplished with a combination of the high cut switch, the treble knob, and the presence knob.   

In the past year and especially the past month I moved extremely far with the design of the channel strip thanks mostly to perseverance, but also to a laundry list of CAD programs.  I finally forced myself to learn a bunch of important design programs, which allowed me to simulate the circuitry, design the enclosure, and design the PCB for the power supply.  I'm finally starting to feel relieved and very excited since I can now taste the finish line after so much hard work, stress and frustration, tons of man hours, and loads of money.   This really is my greatest design and I can hardly wait to finally unveil my completed masterpiece.