catalog-import: a-designs (2 products)

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Headless catalog import

• Manufacturer: A-Designs
• Source: https://adesignsaudio.com/
• Tier issue: AUREO-532

Counts

• Discovered: 90 sitemap URLs (25 product pages, 65 listing, article, legal and PDF pages)
• Extracted (success): 2
• Extracted (partial / review): 0
• Skipped (already in catalog): 18
• Failed: 0
• Auto-selected images: 0/2

Mode note

The tier plan marked this brand greenfield, but the catalog already carries
18 A-Designs entries. The run was executed as planned: Phase 4 dedup skipped
all 18 and only genuinely new products were written, so nothing existing was
touched. A merge refresh (/catalog-import-merge a-designs) is what would
update the 18 existing entries, and this PR is not that.

What was added

Both new entries are 500-series EM modules documented on the shared
/500-series-preamps family page, which is the same source the existing
a-designs-em-gold and a-designs-em-silver entries were built from. The
family has five modules and the catalog carried three of them.

Entry	Name	Evidence
a-designs-em-red	EM-Red Preamp	Page section "EM-Red Preamp"
a-designs-em-blue	EM-Blue Preamp	Page section "EM-Blue Preamp"

Both are marked discontinued. Three independent signals: a per-module
callout reading "PLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE!", a page
header reading "ONLY THE P-1 and the EM-PEQ are currently available, we are
not currently offering any other 500 series modules", and the site nav filing
500-Series Preamps under Legacy Products.

Confidence flags

None. Both entries are confidence.name, .categories and .description =
high.

Data review

• Mode: slim consistency pass (2 entries, both read in full)
• Auto-fixes applied: None
• Remaining notes (INFO / un-auto-fixed):
  • Both entries ship with no image. The only product shot on the page for
    each (em-red-preamp.jpg, em-blue-preamp.jpg) is 124x400 and 116x390,
    below the 300px shortest-side gallery threshold, so selection kept
    neither. Reported as no-images in the table below.
  • capabilities is omitted on both. schema/capabilities.yaml has no value
    for microphone preamplification and its own scope note defers recording
    operations, so there is nothing valid to write. This matches all four
    existing EM siblings, which carry no capabilities either. Adding a
    vocabulary value is a corpus-wide decision and is left to a person.
  • Both entries are neverVerified in pnpm staleness-report, along with
    all 18 pre-existing A-Designs entries. Brand-wide pre-existing state, not
    introduced here.
  • pnpm validate-urls --changed-only --base main checked 0 files: it
    rejects main as a SHA and these entries are untracked until the commit
    below. Both entry URLs were verified directly instead and return 200 with
    no redirect.

Deterministic checks

Check	File	Rule	Detail
coverage	data/hardware/a-designs-em-blue.yaml	no-images	no image survived selection for EM-Blue Preamp, the entry will render with nothing
coverage	data/hardware/a-designs-em-red.yaml	no-images	no image survived selection for EM-Red Preamp, the entry will render with nothing

The io, prose and spelling lints reported nothing. supersedes-resolve.ts
produced no links: neither name carries a generation token and the EM modules
are siblings sold in parallel, not successors.

Robots

Metric	Value
Hosts crawled	1
robots.txt: ok	1 (rules fetched and applied)

Deferred (5 URLs)

Reason	Count	Note
out-of-scope	1	/quad-eight-preamps is an article, listed under Audio Articles in the site nav
anchor-grouped	4	/reddi-tube-di, /hammer-eq, /nail-compressor and /p-1-preamp are alias pages that serve products the catalog already carries

Machine-readable list at
scripts/catalog-import/data/a-designs/deferred.json. Run
/catalog-import-followup a-designs to import these after any blockers
are resolved. Note that all five resolve to existing entries or to
non-product pages, so there is most likely nothing left to import here.

Findings for a human

The legacy listing page names seven retired products, and all seven are
already in the catalog. Whether each carries the discontinued category was
not changed by this run, because a greenfield import does not touch existing
entries. A merge refresh is the lane that would settle it.

Resume / debug

Per-product extraction state lives at
scripts/catalog-import/data/a-designs/import-state.json in the racks repo
until the tier-runner cleans it up. The readable page text used for both
entries is at scripts/catalog-import/data/a-designs/pages/.

Auto-merge gate: batched human review (10 PRs at a time).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Catalog Entries
  • Added the discontinued A-Designs EM-Red and EM-Blue 500-series preamps to the catalog, with product descriptions, specifications, availability, and connection details.
  • These entries complete the five-module A-Designs family. The P-1 and EM-PEQ are the only A-Designs 500-series models currently offered.

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🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 1580835

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

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Name	Type
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Walkthrough

The catalog adds records for the discontinued A-Designs EM-Red and EM-Blue 500-series preamps. A catalog changeset describes the imported entries, the five-module family, and the currently offered 500-series models.

Changes

A-Designs Catalog Import

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add EM-Red and EM-Blue catalog records data/hardware/a-designs-em-red.yaml, data/hardware/a-designs-em-blue.yaml, .changeset/import-a-designs.md	Adds product descriptions, specifications, availability, and connection definitions for both preamps. The changeset describes the imports and current 500-series offerings.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 15808

The EM-Blue instrument input has an incorrect catalog position. Correct it before merging so the entry follows the 500-series convention.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 15808

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: data

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — data (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in data/hardware/a-designs-em-blue.yaml: Adds the EM-Blue record with its 500-series format, nickel output transformer, -20 dB pad, instrument input, sonic characteristics, discontinued status, and mic, instrument, output, and power connections.
• observed — Modified behavior in data/hardware/a-designs-em-red.yaml: Adds the EM-Red product identity and description, including its mid-forward sound, transformer design, stated applications, 500-series rack compatibility, position within the EM family, and discontinued status.
• observed — Modified behavior in data/hardware/a-designs-em-red.yaml: Adds specifications for the 500-series format, transformers, sonic character, intended sources, and availability.
• observed — Modified behavior in data/hardware/a-designs-em-red.yaml: Adds three bottom-positioned pin connections: a single-connection mic audio input, a single-connection line audio output, and a single-connection power input.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Passed checks: 5 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the catalog import and the two A-Designs products added by the pull request.
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @data/hardware/a-designs-em-blue.yaml:
- Line 46: Update the Instrument Input entry’s position in this 500-series
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• .changeset/import-a-designs.md
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