Case prep

The case is from Hammond Manufacturing. They had plenty of options. I would have liked something more compact but I thought it best to err on the side of having too much room to work with rather than not enough.

I started by designing the mixer layout in Illustrator - took a while for me to decide on spacing and arrangement on the faceplate. The rear was pretty easy. I used a sharpie to mark the protective coating on the aluminum case, then made pilot holes with my Dremel.



Then, the drilling of the holes. This led to a lot of tiny aluminum shards on the floor of my apartment, one of which hitched a ride in the bottom of my foot for a couple days.