Summit Concept Art Part 4

This is a pretty recent concept art (I think late last year).  Really close to the home stretch, when we were finalizing the design. We actually had a few of these done up as working prototypes even. 

 

We ended up changing the input channels to 16 mic/line (instead of having the 4 1/4" connectors without the XLR), and the general color scheme was altered. At the end of the day, the woodgrain acrylic looked pretty tacky. The red we went with goes well with the design and kind of suits the product.

Summit Concept Art Part 3

Just thought I'd upload another concept art piece for the Phonic Summit. At this point it was called "Intuitive 32" - at least according to the design. This design is a lot more compact than what we ended up with, but didn't work on an engineering level and was a bit too crammed for the most part.

There are a few functions here Phonic employees wish they could have retained for the final version, but the way they ended up developing the unit didn't leave much room for any of the bells and whistles.  We'll see for the next version though.

Summit Concept Art Part 2

Here's another cool exclusive.  Everybody bask in its awesomness.

At this point we were calling Summit the iD-something-something.  There was going to be a number after the two letters, which hadn't yet been decided on.  We had decided to change up the inputs and outputs a bit at this point.  This was a while before we eventually settled on 16 mic/line, with the ability to pair them up for stereo inputs.

Again, we tried to pack too much into too small a design, and the end result was a bit 'wishy-washy' and not very intuitive.   If you look at the back panel, though, you can see the final design start to take shape.

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Summit Concept Art Part 1

I've got a very cool exclusive for anybody reading this blog.  Below you can find a very early concept art for the Summit digital mixer, circa 2008.  This is just one of hundreds of designs that we rejected for obvious aesthetic reasons.  I remember the name that was being thrown around at the time was i72DMC.  I still have absolutely no idea what that was supposed to mean.

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