Thanks Steve. I would like to get one of these units by the end of the summer if all goes well. First things first though.

Thank you for the well wishes.

I have a question (very cool set ups BTW) to all of those that use the omnidesk (or omnidesk like) type of desks. How does it effect speaker sound (bass in particular). I had a no name type and really liked how organized it makes everything. But my mackies were way to bass heavy on it. Has this been an issue at all?

www.dmsstudio.com

I don't have a big fancy studio or anything but, I thought I would share it with you anyway.

I started making modifications to the new desk I bought (two days ago) in hopes to having something that is easy to get around and "grow" with me.

Well, here is the desk right before I put a hurtin' on it.

Before

Here is a close up of the rack.

After

I also put a hanger for my headphones and I plan on doing more to this poor desk.

From a far

Most of my stuff is still packed up from when I moved my hole room around.


Have a good one.

Mike

P.S. I'd like to add my well wishes to chaz as well. Hope everything works out for ya, bud!

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I got that same desk

I got the same blanket (in Ensenada).

I think I might have that green plastic cup.

Finally got an updated picture.

I thought you ran dual monitors?

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ORIGINAL: Lay In Wait

Finally got an updated picture.

I thought you ran dual monitors?

I sold one of them. It wasn't really worth the hassle to me.

Ok I take that statement back.
I just did a project where I had Sonar, Reason and Cuemix all running together. And I really started missing that second screen. I decided it would probably be worth having two screens for occaissions like that, even if it is turned off 50% of the time. So I found a display-model (the one on the shelf) monitor like the one I had (Viewsonic VX924) as Fry's for a good deal.

Oh, and I've also got a Motu Midi Express-128 that wasn't in the last picture. (4th one down on the rack.) Now I can leave all my keyboards and V-drums plugged in at the same time.

My modest studio - a few months back.





Edited to add equipment:

Hardware:

Behringer UB2442FX
BBE Sonic Maximizer
ART TubePAC Preamp
Behringer Composer Pro Comp Limiter:
ADA MP2 Guitar Preamp
Real Tube II Guitar Preamp
BBE Bass Preamp
Roland SDE1000 Digital Delay
Roland RS 5 Synth
Alesis Photon USB Keyboard Controller


Software:

Sonar 4PE
Soundforge 6
Cool Edit Pro

I LOVE my Omnirax, but Good Lord it was pricey for me. I was even more aghast at the additional 21% cost for shipping. Worth it though- it's bulletproof.

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i won't participate in the "who got the longest ..." competition ... bit too juvenile ...
 
ears & talent are the only things you gotta be equipped with ...
 
alright, I expect to be hit very hard now

That's a good question.  For me, it's kind of a balancing act - cords that are more "permanent" (power and USB to keyboards and racks, audio from interfaces to amps, etc.) I run behind equipment on the floor of my small studio. Mic and headphone cables for placements that move, I find, have to run in a way that can move too, so portions of those runs do go across the floor. If I were a guitar player, I could imagine a cord or two having to run across the floor. (That's the way it is for the USB cord on my keytar LOL.)

Here's a few pix of the upgrades I'm just completing now.
 
 
 

 Main Tracking Room. Control room is behind the monitors and racks. Playback room is visible center right. Remote Studio is set up in the room behind you as you face the racks and monitors.
 
 
 
 
 

 I just added the 4th monitor (top). My computer upgrades never work the first try, especially when I close up the box before testing. Until this time! The left monitor has dual inputs, fed by the main DAW, and a supporting PC I use for softsynths and video collaboration. The primary DAW is an i7 quad w 12GB RAM, running X1 Studio. I have X1 Producer, X2 producer and X2 Essential in boxes, but haven't decided what needs to be deployed exactly where yet. So far, it hasn't been a limitation.
 
 
 
 
 

 Playback Room. The bigscreen is fed by the supporting PC in the tracking room, the Remote Studio, a BluRay and a DVD player, sat dish and Xbox. Audio feeds from the other rooms.
 
 
 
 
 

 This is the Remote Studio, currently set up as an alternate mixing/mastering console. It runs off a laptop not pictured.
 
 
 

 This is a little writing/practice/arranging studio I set up on a bookshelf platform. Its mobile, drives headphones or PC speakers, and is only connected to the LAN via Sneakernet (SDcard manual transfer). The Android platform has a ways to go when it comes to digital audio, so I use a Boss Micro BR for recording. The tablet however, makes a great source for MP3 playback and Youtube videos. Best of all, no matter who is here or what time it is, I am the only one who can hear it with the speakers off and phones on!
 
 
 
 

 
This is the main control room, up and running independently, and on the LAN, but the audio links are not yet in place. I am tripping over the snake I'm going to use, but up till this week, a new male kitten was getting fascinated by wirechewing everytime I attempted to thru-wall it, so it has been delayed. He had minor surgery on Monday, and only destroys things once or twice a day now, so I'll be finishing that project momentarily.
 
Both laptops float around. The left two screens are driven by the Video Editing PC, which also hosts the main file server for the LAN. The right two screens are driven by a PC which does double duty as a print server and internet access for Guests.
 
I got tired of Billgates haughteur, and instituted filesharing via a 1TB LAN cloud drive, which gets around the networking vagaries of Vista and Win 7 admirably. All told, there's around 10TB of file storage space available or in use.
 
Byte Me, Bill!
 
:-)

Looks good, Bill.
And your control room monitors are making me homesick.
Top left, looking West from the top of Berthoud Pass toward the back side of James Peak?
Top right, Grand Lake toward Mt Baldy?

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