Show me your homemade or custom made console or studio furniture-NO premade or bought

[amishsixstringe]

Hi Guys,

I built this desk last week. It cost me 300 dollars including buying every tool I needed (circular saw, square, tape measure....everything). I'm going to be building a matching angled rack for the floor soon and moving a lot of the gear out of the desk to replace with a central station and a TT patchbay. The convenience of having everything right in front of me is amazing thus far.




I think it looks pretty good for a college house bedroom.





Neil


Neil

[infopimpster]

neil - looks just about right. nice job on that.

[soundrick]

I made this desk on my back patio with a couple of hand power tools. I have a small little setup in a spare bedroom, and needed something that didn't take up too much space, would hold some rack gear, and wasn't a particle board piece of @#$t.
The top is Birch ply, the rest is solid oak. Red oak finish with plastic poly top coat.
It doesn't look like it came out of the New Yankee workshop, but it turned out pretty good IMHO.
Here it is empty:

[Faderjockey]

Originally Posted by TEMAS

This is my work in progress. I need more gear for it.

Hey nice Tone Press and Barb EQ..

Thanks

[Fishmed]

Originally Posted by soundrick

I made this desk on my back patio with a couple of hand power tools. I have a small little setup in a spare bedroom, and needed something that didn't take up too much space, would hold some rack gear, and wasn't a particle board piece of @#$t.
The top is Birch ply, the rest is solid oak. Red oak finish with plastic poly top coat.
It doesn't look like it came out of the New Yankee workshop, but it turned out pretty good IMHO.
Here it is empty:

It looks well made to me. Post another pic once you have it loaded.

[badger17]

Here's mine..

[Studioklocka]

Originally Posted by strewnshank

Just finished it...didn't take too long, but I wish I had somehow sunk the console a bit lower...

i love this desk..yes i think u should have sunk it no matter.

[pan]

Originally Posted by manthe

Cool. Gotta front shot?

took some time, but here it is:

[screamingpirhana]

On what turned out to be the right hand (computer iso) side of my desk, I first bought a bathroom cabinet from Home Depot and cut it down on the top and bottom. Lined it with foam, put a hinged door and cable access in the back. I got a metal rack for the left side, I cut out 4 pieces of plywood of the same shape for the sidecars, painted them with black "granite" type of paint from Home Depot. (I should have used 3/4" ply..) I then got a full piece of red oak 3/4" plywood, and used cherry stain for my main desk top. I also cut out tops for the monitor stand, stained cherry. The desk top just slides in the slots, it's not even screwed in, and it's STURDY. I used some g pine board painted gray, which makes a nice color balance to the black and cherry, to brace the back, I think it's a 1 x 10 or so, and the same for the video monitor stand. I later lowered the video mon. stand because of neck strain, when I installed twin flat panel monitors.

This is still in progress, I didn't know what kind or size sound board I'd get for final use...so I didn't build it like a console type of desk, I needed the versatility.

I'm amazed at the stuff some of the members have built in here, good job. I almost hate to post this, but if someone is looking for a simple plan, hopefully this will point to a possible direction. DC

[Tonio Ruiz]

here is my almost former studio furniture, I've got some more gear including a new mixer, I'm building a new studio furniture to nest my new setting, not me though, a guy how builds handmade stuff, well, here it is my "former" setting.

I can't get a jpg attached here, so please visit:

TR Mix Room

[bentley]

Thought I'd update with a photo of my work in progress. I took some time off from working on it due to too many things going on at once. Need to finish staining it and mount the rails. I may be the world's slowest woodworker....

[Jidis]

Originally Posted by GreatDivideStud

The ergonomics are killer, but I always wondered if it affected the sound in a negative way.

If Jamie's around- What were you mainly concerned about, the above desk parts? Mine's in the same basic shape, but the angled wings make another 45 degree turn, so it made more of a "U" shape. My plan was to build upward with some angled space above desk like you have, but I moved out last year and it's in storage.

Take Care

[bentley]

For anyone interested in seeing it, here's my finished desk:

[pan60]

nice!

[Brandon Weaver]

Thanks to inspiration mainly from this thread, I built this...

In all, it was about $500 in materials and 40 hours of labor. And maybe 6 hours designing and drawing everything out in AutoCAD.

The bulk of the material was 3/4" 7-ply maple veneered plywood, 3/4" MDF, and 24"x24" green granite tiles...


I had to build everything modular so it could be moved into the control room.
These ported sides turned out great for accessing the rack rear.


Here are the stained sided and the beginnings of the granite top.


Assembled, and awaiting arrival of rack rails...


Loaded with gear (more needed) in control room


It was designed for a 24 channel D-Command. Still holding out with the 002 for now.
That'll be a good day.

[Lunatique]

Originally Posted by ale8one2

Loaded with gear (more needed) in control room

I love the design of the acoustic panels! Very decorative and functional.

[ricfoxx]

Originally Posted by Lunatique

I love the design of the acoustic panels! Very decorative and functional.

Seeing his craftmanship makes me embarrassed on my hack jobs, beautiful indeed... GOOD JOB!thumbsup

[Prahlad]

Here s a view of my studio used for Dance, Lounge and advertising music production
Inspired Sound
Finally after much shifting of gear for the best ergonomics I came to this setup. I built the desk and racks last year from scratch and spent about 250 euro and a lot of hours on them, best thing i did for my back and posture in the studio.
The MC s slide under the Central station when not needed to have some desk space, as does the Nord Lead. The racks are not fixed to the desk, so if one day the European prices for Cinema displays drop to a reasonable level I can get rid of the two tft s, replace the TFT holder (3 pieces of plywood, and finally bring the monitors in a bit closer...seemed smart to keep the desk space use as flexile as possible. The acoustic treating is by Flax akustik from Berlin, and they make some GREAT broadband absorbers...made all the difference here.
Flaxakustik
The only hassle I always have is that if I have my computer keyboard, controllers AND Nord lead on the desk the TFT s would be too far away... Best way around it was to move the Nord under the desk and allow the TFT s to slide forward for editing when the MC s are not used.

[godcity]

my friend and i made this on a steel frame with birch cabinets and a walnut armrest.

[pan60]

cool!

[cosmos]

it was all made from leftovers of a big bedroom closet ..












Then i colored them Black ..





and thats it ... it is very easy to do when you have the tools ..

[Fishmed]

Originally Posted by cosmos

and thats it ... it is very easy to do when you have the tools ..

You can say that about recording too!

[cosmos]

Originally Posted by Fishmed

You can say that about recording too!

i Work at music school, once i saw a 2nd year student aimming a 414tlII to the ceiling when he was trying to capture a Hi Hat. i swear to god.

[screamingpirhana]

Originally Posted by 7161

damn, i thought you meant the actual mixing console, and i had a mad dream i'd see a photo of my old modular 24/4 channel one which was stolen, perhaps i should find a photo & paste it up, mebbe someone out there has it or knows it's whereabouts in the uk. what an awesome mixer it was, 4 band eq with switchable freq ranges

each module has a sticky label on it signed in pen with the initial 'RW' (pretty sure it was RW)

i seem to remember somone saying it was a guy called Ray Walker or something like that? does that ring any bells to anyone?

Don't know if anyone else replied to this, but there was a guy named Ray Walker who was one of the Jordanaires, Elvis Presley's original backup band, you hear them on most of his hits, like Don't Be Cruel, etc. He was the bass singer, and it seems like I read that he later owned a studio. He also worked a lot with Olivia Newton-John in the 70s & 80, one of the great bass vocalists. So maybe you have his console.

[piotr]

Here is a custom steel rack/stand built especially for the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor:



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[GorillaToast]

During construction.


Finished.

I wasn't patient enough to stain, sand and topcoat, so I painted it black. The center section is attached to the sidecars with bolts so I can replace it with bigger or smaller if I get a different console.

[The dman]

Some nice looking desks here. Here's mine. $200 in parts and a day to put it together

[steveyraff]

Wow, my desk looks pathetic compared to your fancy desks!

Although I must say, this one cost me $0.

It was originally a kitchen counter that was ripped out. There was a hole in the middle of it where the kitchen sink sat. Coincidentally, it perfectly fitted my mixing desk and a wooden rack mount I made.

Its not pretty - but it does the job, I guess.

[Hashbrown]

Wow, great thread.

I'm planning a kind of transportable type desk (so i can wheel it around the house for tracking

This is really inspiring.

Thanks

[bee]

Originally Posted by The dman

Some nice looking desks here. Here's mine. $200 in parts and a day to put it together

Great job that looks amazing!