DIY studio furniture/gear stands?

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2010/06/10 16:38:04 (permalink)

DIY studio furniture/gear stands?

I'm contemplating knocking together something to hold my my monitors (both visual AND near-fields) and I'm torn between a few different approaches. Anyone ever throw something together for their own studio and wanna share juicy pix and/or war stories about it?

Heres my studio with a sketch of two ideas:


I basically wanna ditch those plastic shelves and move my 1202 and BCF slightly under the displays and move my keyboard controller over to center-stage, so to speak. In this one, I basically build a simple up/down shelf to hold the displays. 




In this one I connect a shelf between the monitor stands, freeing up desk space and making a slightly larger thingee. Yeah I know all you peeps, isolate your near-fields blah blah. I've got some rockwool (thanks Bitflipper) I was gonna use to make some ghetto speaker pads with. 



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    bitflipper
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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/12 18:35:25 (permalink)
    You might want to consider an equipment rack, assuming you have some space off to one side of your desk. Even if you don't have any rack-mounted gear, you can get shelves and drawers that go into the rack. That would free up most of your desk space. There may even be a rack-mounting kit available for your BCF. Plus you'd be ready when you stumble onto that pristine 1176 at a garage sale.

    There are small table-top racks for cheap, starting at around 30 bucks. You can also get just the rails and mount them in your own frame which could then double as a stand for your displays. Although I'd prefer keeping the video monitors down low and pointing upward, so as to interfere as little as possible with your speakers.

    I plan to have a desk made when I build my dream studio overseas, one that has a lowered shelf for the video monitors, a little like the ones you see built in to the desk on the evening news.


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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/12 21:26:39 (permalink)
    Why don't you get a catalog from Musician's Friend and see what's available?

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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/12 22:51:03 (permalink)
    older pic, but very inexpensive to build
     


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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/12 22:54:22 (permalink)
    btw, don't forget the cheapie acoustic treatment...that can look like more speakers!!

    actually they work great for the room, plus the corner traps.


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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/13 15:19:15 (permalink)
    Wicked,
     
    I built a couple of rack cabinets following the plans from this site:
    http://plans.thefrankes.com/Tutorials/Workstation5/default.aspx
     
    The plans worked perfectly
     
    There are a couple of workstation desks that might be what you want.
     
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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/13 18:28:19 (permalink)
    I thought about a rack, but I really don't own a lot of rack items. I could put 'em all in drawers but things like the BCF I want in front of me all the time.

    I ended up with this:


    The only thing left to do is figure a way to mount my XP-50 UNDER the desk, so it's out of the way. 


    Unlike everyone else I'm very much a "less is more" with gear. I've got anti-GAS I guess. :-) I even pulled my ART preamp since I so rarely use it and when I do it's a cinch to throw on the desk. 

    Of course how all this newfound airspace is going to affect my already biased acoustics remains to be seen. 

    But now I've got a squeaky clean studio, I took every piece of gear outside and blew it out with a compressor (or canned air for my delicates). I just wanna wrap the room and myself in plastic and disappear for a few weeks.

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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/13 22:02:03 (permalink)
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    Wicked,
     
    I built a couple of rack cabinets following the plans from this site:
    http://plans.thefrankes.com/Tutorials/Workstation5/default.aspx
     
    The plans worked perfectly
     
    There are a couple of workstation desks that might be what you want.
     
    Ken
     
     
    I second this and actually came to post his site which is rackcreations.com. Very good designs and a lot of mods made that people post on his site. Suggest checking it out.


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    Re:DIY studio furniture/gear stands? 2010/06/14 07:08:14 (permalink)
    I did more or less the same, wicked.

    I have my monitors on stands and got two other stands cut to size to take my screens. I got an MDF board (they can take massive weights and cost a pittance). It all sits on an IKEA desk (their desks are huge and really solid and cheap).

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