THE PHEENIX ALPHA AD12
Onyx presses on the Pheenix Alpha AD12 — a fully automatic press built in Sweden by the engineers behind Toolex Alpha, whose machines pressed a huge share of the records in your collection. The AD12 takes that proven design and rebuilds it with modern automation and control, which is why it's become the press of choice for plants that care about what comes off the line.
Everything that used to ride on an operator's hands and timing is handled by the machine. A pre-plasticizing extruder melts and forms each vinyl cake to a set weight, air cylinders deliver it dead center, and centering, pressing, trimming and unloading run on the same cycle every time. Cake weight and press parameters are dialed in on a touch screen and held there — so record 500 sounds like record 1.
And because we're in the Los Angeles area, you don't have to wait on freight to hear your record. Local artists are welcome to pick their orders up in person.