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Hey guys, I thought I'd share this with you. I have been helping a friend of mine build up a studio. We both agreed that the cost of a professional studio desk was not worth it. The majority I have seen cost between $1500-3000! I figured that money would be better spent on more audio gear, so I told him I would build a desk for him.
Here is a full shot of the desk in the studio room. Desk length is 99" x 39" deep. Each "leg" of the desk is extra space, built for new rack mountable gear, but right now only the right one house 3 patch bays and the mixer power supply. I believe (if I remember correctly) that each leg holds 11U of gear.
Other angle... we didn't have enough blank plates to fill the left leg but hopefully it will be filled with more gear soon
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Here's the sliding keyboard tray. I wanted to make it very wide to fit some of his more odd shaped items. Silver box is a SidStation, and along side that is the yellow Metasonix TM-1 Waveshaper.
Here is his synth, with easy-to-reach 2 x 6U rack. There is empty space under the rack for all the cables from the synth to pass through easily. Zero cables on the desk surface!
This section was fun to do. 6Us of gear space again to match the right side, but with an angled console to match the shape of the mixing desk. This gives us 7U of space that goes down "in" the desk. It gives it a very nice clean look, and once again, puts everything in arms reach. The empty space is for a piece of gear that is getting rack ears made.
Other angle, which shows the matching lines.
In addition to building the desk for him to save money, I also convinced him that we should build all the cables 8O . Here is a shot of nearly 200 interconnects, of which 80% are hand made by the two of us. The advantage to making our own was cost savings, custom length, and higher quality. Lots of hours here! All things considered it is quite tidy, but I will be organizing them soon.
There is still a lot to do to the studio. Wall treatments, cable organizing, swivel mount for the LCD, etc... I will take some more pics (and better ones) in the near future.
Any advice for me? It's the first studio I have helped build but I am learning a ton!
Here is a full shot of the desk in the studio room. Desk length is 99" x 39" deep. Each "leg" of the desk is extra space, built for new rack mountable gear, but right now only the right one house 3 patch bays and the mixer power supply. I believe (if I remember correctly) that each leg holds 11U of gear.
Other angle... we didn't have enough blank plates to fill the left leg but hopefully it will be filled with more gear soon
.Here's the sliding keyboard tray. I wanted to make it very wide to fit some of his more odd shaped items. Silver box is a SidStation, and along side that is the yellow Metasonix TM-1 Waveshaper.
Here is his synth, with easy-to-reach 2 x 6U rack. There is empty space under the rack for all the cables from the synth to pass through easily. Zero cables on the desk surface!
This section was fun to do. 6Us of gear space again to match the right side, but with an angled console to match the shape of the mixing desk. This gives us 7U of space that goes down "in" the desk. It gives it a very nice clean look, and once again, puts everything in arms reach. The empty space is for a piece of gear that is getting rack ears made.
Other angle, which shows the matching lines.
In addition to building the desk for him to save money, I also convinced him that we should build all the cables 8O . Here is a shot of nearly 200 interconnects, of which 80% are hand made by the two of us. The advantage to making our own was cost savings, custom length, and higher quality. Lots of hours here! All things considered it is quite tidy, but I will be organizing them soon.
There is still a lot to do to the studio. Wall treatments, cable organizing, swivel mount for the LCD, etc... I will take some more pics (and better ones) in the near future.
Any advice for me? It's the first studio I have helped build but I am learning a ton!
ensen.
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