Desk Questions

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You want to place your mixing location along the shortest wall. That being said, you don't have much space (I can relate; my control room is roughly 8x8).

As far as your desk goes, you can construct it out of any number of materials. I went to Home Depot and picked up these metal brackets that are designed for building work benches (they have a brochure with all kinds of plans) and used those to tie together some 2x3 lumber for the basic frame. A piece of 3/4" plywood on top and you have a sturdy platform. It's not much on looks, but for about $25 it fit the bill for my purposes. (BTW - I closed out the front edge with a piece of 1/4" trim to alleviate the sharp edge of the plywood).

Darryl.....
 
Or there's always my desk.... in competition for worlds ugliest ;) I used a solid core door cut to size for the top -- seems to work well.

-lee-
 
Heres mine - just plywood and 2x3's.
You can see a bunch of home wrecker desks at:
http://www.lsfsound.com/homemade.php


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Got some pictures of your desk? I'd be glad to add them to the gallery.

Cheers
Kevin.
 
Speaking of pics, Kevin, I still haven't gotten around to taking good photos of mine for you. One of these days.....

Darryl.....
 
Hello Kevin, long time no see. Studio must be keeping you busy huh? The only thing my studio keeps me busy at is moving the damn thing.

Hey Darryl, honeydo's keep me from a lot of stuff too!(you know, "honey,can you do this":D )

Hello sjaguar13, Darryl is right. Use the long dimension of the room to your advantage so you have the longest distance from your ears to the back wall, and back to your ears. This allows a delay in reflections from the back wall reaching your ears. Something to do with reflections smearing the direct sound from the monitors. But I'm no expert. Just a homerecording novice. Someone else can give you the scientific explanation. Knightfly, where are you when I need ya! I have about 14' behind the monitoring position in this incarnation. BTW, this IS about my custom console. Not just bla bla bla. Ha!

Well, I'm finally ready to assemble my console this coming weekend. (already built, but tore down from moving) I'll post a bunch of pics of the assembly then. But for now, I'll only post the pics of the temporary floor platforms. I put these in place a MONTH ago. No time to finish since then. Shop came first. I built these as a temporary substitute for a floating floor. Since the legs of the console are actually cable chases(hollow) that die into the floor, you can see the hollow steel mounting brackets sticking out of them. First, I have to insert all the snakes etc up through the brackets, and then the OSB platform panels, mount the rectangular stainless steel legs, steel frame, hardwood endcaps, wristpad frames, access hood, suspended belly rackmount cabinet, frame pans, and THEN, the equipment that goes into it. WHEW! Takes about a week to assemble it.(Actually I could do it in a day, but you know how that is, honeydo strikes again) Took 3 months to build. But it was fun.
So bear with me. I'll post progress pics through the week. I think you'll like it. Ok, enough bla bla. This is where I start.(This is only a temporary room so I don't go crazy waiting to build the real room! Ha!)
fitZ

http://www.clubq3a.com/rkpics/Rick3.jpg
http://www.clubq3a.com/rkpics/Rick4.jpg
 
longsoughtfor said:
Heres mine - just plywood and 2x3's.
You can see a bunch of home wrecker desks at:
http://www.lsfsound.com/homemade.php


desk1.bmp



Got some pictures of your desk? I'd be glad to add them to the gallery.

Cheers
Kevin.
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Thanks for the thought.... but this desk is functional, but doggone ugly. I've seen the glorious woodworking around here -- I'm not in that league! Darn it Jim, I'm a geek, not a carpenter!!

For pics, check out the updates at http://johnlsayers.com/Studio/Mainpage/MP-laptoppop.htm

If you want, you can right click and save them - the pics are already optimized for web use.

-lee-
 
Hey Lee.....what you mean "your not a carpenter?" Looks great to me. Damn fine if I do say so myself. Not that that means a thing. I mean, who am I. Lotta people can't even build a box. You got great ideas, and you get them done. Thats what matters, right?
fitZ:)
 
There were some sweet looking desks. I have a Mackie 32.8 than I want to be even with the top of the desk. Other than that and the computer, I don't know what else I would need on the desk other than some nearfields.

The vocal room is in the corner, then the control room. Would I put the desk on the wall they share, or would I put it back a little farther? The door to the control room is right by the wall they share, so I won't be able to look out into the live room (the rest of the garage). Should I put it on wheels so I can move it back to see the live room while tracking, then push it up to the wall while mixing?
 
I just really enjoyed the label "shelves full of crap". And I am envious of your giant garage. I would pu the desk in the bigger room though. (Room for more shelves)
 
Yeah, I decided to make the corner room labeled the control room into a vocal room, and make the bigger room the control rooom. I just don't know where to put the desk without it being in the way of getting in the room.
 
Got some pictures of your desk? I'd be glad to add them to the gallery.

Cheers
Kevin. [/B]
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I see my pictures are still there, I should send the update ones... I've made progress, finally.

How about welded, monitor cages to mount on a slanted ceiling?

heh-heh

frederic@midimonkey.dyndns.org
 
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