Hardly has there ever been a time as crazy as this one. Constantly being haunted by new ideas for equipment, circuits and functions the heads of a nameless company began to breed the concept for a compressor that should be called alpha one day. Plenty of things were possible, none good enough. One day the actual big bang came all of a sudden. The picture shows the very first sketch of it!

Initial experimental setups and auditions already pointed out that a very special gear was about to be built. Of course it had to get the proper looks, too! The elyisans approached the specialists from markt und design. Thrilled by the idea and the possibility to draw on plentiful material resources the designer team set to work immediately.

In the meantime the intensive development phase showed its results. We built lots of new circuit variants, checked out complete series of components and listened to the results again and again. Little by little the puzzle made of discrete components began to materialize itself. This picture shows one of the early prototype PCBs (but you can already see the modular construction in three layers).

This is a picture of the final rendering. Several months before the alpha compressor was actually completed, this made it possible to imagine how it would look like in all details later. The data used for it was also the basis for the final construction plans, by the way. Now we had to see if electronics and mechanics could be combined to the final product we had in mind.