![]() With that being said, we found quite a few choices today to keep it a bit broad - do you have a bunch of gear, or perhaps just a simple controller or two? Today we found a few studio desks worth looking at - how could we forget that we need something to keep all this gear on! Especially if you’re building a home studio, we need to keep everything organized. We’re not talking “equipment”, either - how about furniture? Back in the day, we remember getting by with our typical Ikea or other popular store-brand desks when we were first starting out however, upgrading our desk not only helped keep our gear organized and safe, but saved us some time and improved the work flow greatly to get those ideas coming quicker than ever. Even though we’ve covered shopping guides for most music and recording gear in the market these days, there’s still some other valuable additions you may need for your studio. You can see that in this screen shot (the rectangle lower left is my “rack” proxy).The best music studio desk will really make a difference in your workflow. What I ended up with was a rectangle 36” by 60” (3’x5’) with a cutout in the back middle for a control surface and cutouts on the front corners where I would be able to angle in larger rolling racks. If it worked I would keep it and if not I would modify my design. I then iterated a few times, taking dimensions from both my studio/office and my studio equipment creating rectangles in Sketchup. I used a couple of designs I really liked ( Wave Nature, Argosy Halo) for inspiration to get initial dimensions and see what angles I tended to like. I did this with Sketchup, putting down actual dimensions using simple shapes so I could visual the desktop (the legs and other things will come later). Once I had a couple of ideas in mind, it was time to start documenting. If something didn’t work in that mental exercise, I would discard and try again. As I would step away from a research session, I would then try to imagine a desk with features that would answer all of my requirements. However, he had some great insight from a professional perspective that affected my ultimate requirements. One blog I ran across was Alexander Jenkins, who was going through some of the same process I was, though he is building a more serious studio. I spent a couple of weeks going through the images looking for pieces that could inspire my own build. A quick aside, there is a ton of “furniture” out there that I wouldn’t trust to hold my breakfast, but I digress. I did this by searching internet images and articles as well as Pinterest for music studio, music production, and home studio desks. With those requirements in mind, I started off by doing some deeper research. I would like it to be expandable since I will probably miss something as I build. I would like it to be reproducible by others. So many desks have a miniscule opening for you to sit.Īesthetics need to play at least some role. I do NOT want my knees hitting any part of the desk. I want to be able to context shift (composing, recording, mixing, day job) with a minimum of effort. I do not want to dig through boxes just to use or modify. This is the first part, designing what I think I want. I will bring you along as go through my build. ![]() Though there are some really cool desks out there, I did not have that kind of money to spend (and this being a DIY/maker type blog) it made sense to build my own. I started by seeing what was available to buy and quickly found that unless you have a couple of thousand dollars sitting around, a commercial version was out of reach. Plus, it fits in great with our theme of the year organize! ![]() Add in the dual purpose of office that my desk has served the last couple of years, my frustration has grown such that it is time to deal with. It has worked well enough and if you look back through some of my projects you can see how I made some attempts to solve this before, but as I have slowly acquired gear, the desk has gotten smaller and smaller. For that decade I have been using a simple Ikea desk that is just a rectangular top and sides. I have been into music most of my life, but more seriously the last decade (you can check out my music if you like).
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