Mixing Workstation Furniture Photos

cant direct you but I can you give you my thoughts.
build one or have on custom built / if you know the right carpenter.
doesn't have to be elegant (unless your building for an SSL400)
I used grade A Pine and painted mine black. my desk has:
 
- 20 rack holder (for 19" rack gear)
- a place for my analog mixer (in the middle)
- My Mackie MCU Control surface to the Left
- spaces on each side for my speaker stands to be ear height.
 
I put the MCU unit on the left because this gives me 2 hand capabilities.
using the mouse and keyboard with my right hand, while allowing me to use my left hand on the MCU, to adjust faders, buttons, exc while still doing some pointing and clicking.
 
I also put a nice Vinyl padded arm rest across the whole desk for comfort. so glad I did because I spend a lot of time resting my hand on it, holding up my head in shame  for those OMG moments.
I will try to post pics of it later. its long too 8 ft long x 2 ft wide.
My best advise is to draw it out and try to create the feel of your workflow. this will help because in the long run there's always some last minute changes needed. if you plan well enough, you will minimize those.
Good luck
Chuck 

Some very good advice from Chuck there.
 
Make as many drawings as you possibly can, map it all to scale, preferably in a software program if you have the skills.
 
I tried a few different ones but couldn't get up to speed with any of them.
I ended up using the drawing tools in Ms Excel haha!
 
I used furniture grade plywood throughout, if I had to do it again, I'd choose a different material, the main reason that all of the exposed edges of the ply looked awful so I had to apply a thin strip of veneer on all of them, I think it was in excess of 150 strips of different lengths. Going round corners was fun 
 

Zargg71
Sorry to maybe be off topic, but nice, Colin.
I hope more share their setup in this thread. 
Mine is just a modified double decker bed (cut the top half off), with some extensions i made from some materials I had. It is wrapped in cloth material.
I used two IKEA night tables as rack / monitor stands.

All the best.

How many spaces are those racks? I'm designing a similar style desk was thinking of using 4u racks as stands

Not sure this will help but I'll post it anyway. The main front facing part is store bought and probably no longer available so probably no help but the sidecar rack is something I built myself so there's that. I can't remember the name of the company that built the keyboard stand, but it was Italian because I remember having to send to Italy for different parts because I was using an 88 key keyboard and most of their stuff available state side was designed for 60 key keyboards. 

As for the sidecar rack, I built it myself under protest. Nothing much special about it but I knew what I wanted and I looked everywhere to find someone who made it. I just could not find anyone who made anything that I felt came close enough to what I had in mind so I went to Home Depot, bought some oak plywood and got to work. I call it my R2D2 rack but it is exactly what I had in mind. 
 
 

 
Here's a better pic of the R2D2 rack. There's not much particularly special about I suppose. Its just the geometry of it I think. The size, the shape and lines of it are what I wanted and I couldn't find anything like it on the market at the time. Also it was the first piece of woodcraft that I built myself. And happily, it doesn't look home-made which means even after all these years I still get to have those moments where I look at it and I have to remind myself, oh yeah, I built that myself. Those are nice moments right there. ;-)
 
This pic is newer and as you can see, I've rearranged the room so the rack is now to the right of the keyboard instead of to the left. I think its important to rearrange/rewire/rebuild every so often. Keeps the creative juices flowing IMO. 


 
And yes that is indeed an ancient Peavey Cakewalk StudioMix on the rack. And yes I still use it and yes it still works great. 

That's great!

RSMCGUITAR

Zargg71
Sorry to maybe be off topic, but nice, Colin.
I hope more share their setup in this thread. 
Mine is just a modified double decker bed (cut the top half off), with some extensions i made from some materials I had. It is wrapped in cloth material.
I used two IKEA night tables as rack / monitor stands.

All the best.

How many spaces are those racks? I'm designing a similar style desk was thinking of using 4u racks as stands

Mine are 5U. I made them 5, because it was a better listening height for me. I measured first, and tried different heights, and 5U was right for me.
All the best.

Also, http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/blog/reclaimed-wood-studio-desk/
and http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/projects/photos/desks/ for some ideas.