The "Post your desk!" (and racks) thread

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:30 pm

this is during our recent sessions recording a talented young singer-songwriter named Evan Darst.

the usual mid-session mess.

amp mic shootout.

Me with my long hair (gone) and bad posture (still got it).

there's a growing ungodly mess of rack gear, but we don't keep it in the tracking space and i left my camera at a co-worker's BBQ.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:35 pm

what's the aerosol can of PAM for?

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:47 pm

RefD wrote:what's the aerosol can of PAM for?

the bass drum pedal, it squeaks.

Corey Y · Post by **Corey Y** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:38 pm

Just built the shelf and mount for the headphone amp a couple weeks ago, all the essentials fit perfectly. Got just enough space for my lunchbox on the desktop or on a little metal shelf just under it, but didn't have it set up when I took the pic. Sorry for the grainy cellphone pic.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:26 pm

i am currently rearranging and recabling a major part of my music room and will post pics when it's all done, but this could take a bit...maybe next weekend?

right now it's not the biggest mess it's ever been, but it's close.

Jay Reynolds · Post by **Jay Reynolds** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:32 am

Not in love with the desk itself. Even with the Mopads, the desk adds a lot of low mids to whichever speaks are sitting on it. I'm thinking of trying it with the drawers taken out:

Cell phone camera

Closer, but no less blurry

The rest of the room:

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:02 pm

this is a pic of my home studio from last year.
the mackie is long gone and I have a few more things added to the pile.
What you cant see very well are the acoustic treatment on the walls and cieling. I'm very minimalist about acoustic treatement.
I've noticed in rooms with too much absorbtion going on I tend to nail the treble too hard.

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:42 pm

My old Tac Scorpion in my old studio in Brooklyn. It's gone (well, in storage) and those god-awful Tannoys are long gone.

...and my current temporary setup in our apartment in LA.

This'll all soon be going to a new dedicated space, hopefully I'll have it ready before the baby starts taking off all the knobs and trying to eat them.

This is a great thread by the way.... really gave me an excuse to clear alot of the papers and crap from around the work area so that the picture would look good.

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:40 pm

I still have no idea how to get images uploaded to this site.

Still, if you're not above MySpace, here's my console

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... &i=9874345

And my rack

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... &i=5931144

And our little fuzzy housemate, eerily prognosticating the death of a Revox A-77 (kinda dark)

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... &i=1116158

EDIT: more pics of cat and 80-8. So far he's 2 for 2 on tape deck mortality:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... i=16670823

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... i=17429781

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:46 pm

Judas Jetski wrote:I still have no idea how to get images uploaded to this site.

I don't know what everyone else does, but I generally use photobucket to host my images. They make it really easy and convenient to just copy the image code right underneath the image, so you can paste it in your post.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:48 pm

*redundant post trimmed*

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:53 pm

RefD wrote:
DrummerMan wrote:
Judas Jetski wrote:I still have no idea how to get images uploaded to this site.

I don't know what everyone else does, but I generally use photobucket to host my images. They make it really easy and convenient to just copy the image code right underneath the image, so you can paste it in your post.

Nice! Uh, why doesn't that work for me? Anyway, thanks! :) :) :)

EDIT: the rack, top to bottom

1) Otari MX-50 with busted main outs--use headphone out for tape delay
2) patchbay
3 & 4) Gates Solid Statesman compressors
5) cheezy Crate power amp
6) Gates FM Limiter (got another one, it's busted though)
7) dbx 160A
8) ART Dual Levelar (replaced by dbx 166XL)
9) Alesis 3630 (replaced by ART Dual Levelar)
10) Orban stereo synthsizer
11) Alesis Midiverb II (displaying #11)
12) MicMix XL-210 reverb
13) Hush IIB (since replaced with Ashly SC-52 which I have yet to use)
14) Shure SE-30

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:59 pm

argh, I'm such an idiot! Born analog for a digital world...

JTalia · Post by **JTalia** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:07 pm

My current desk:

soon to be replaced with this:

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:23 pm

no way! a 'Son Of 36 Grand' in Australia!?!?!

That is exactly how my console started life!

that thing looks INSANELY brand new!

John

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