KVR Audio

kitkonis · Post by **kitkonis** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:20 am

Hello, I am searching for a nice desk. Price should be less than 800€.

I am not a hardware junkie, so I will use only one soundcard, 2 monitors, and 2 midi keyboards - one big (88 keys) and one 3 octave and a maschine kontroller. So I need a desk where the big midi-keyboard would be on a drawer that I can pull it out when needed. everything else would be on top of the desk. Also there should be place for a big 34" lcd screen

http://www.thomann.de/gb/cat.html?gf=st ... ure&oa=prd

here are a lot of different desks.. Does anybody know one of them, which should I take?

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:26 pm

I would suggest building one yourself. It will save you a lot of money and it is not that hard to do. There's a lot of videos on youtube on building studio desks by yourself.

Besides the price, you can build the desk specifically to your wanted specs and, even more important, available space

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:40 pm

One of the best manufacturer is Argosy for me. But they're way over the budget. They have a fantastic customer service, in case some parts came with scratches, etc.

If you are really into looks, you should buy a desk, or you are a real handy man and you can craft a very nice looking desk yourself. To build a simple desk that won't win a price for its looks is "easy" and will be cheap. But if you care for the looks and think you won't be able to do that yourself, get something from Zoar. They seem reasonably priced and look good. They also seem to be functional.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:45 pm

I'm looking forward to workstation like this one:
http://www.ikea.com/pl/pl/catalog/products/50219044/

Can hold two monitors, few devices under them, gives comfortable place for hands and also there are speaker stands out of way.

As long as you don't need to hold 10 analog synths, you don't need to buy dedicated music studio furniture either. They will charge you twice as much for the mere fact that's "dedicated" and "professional".

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:19 pm

If you want to go the DIY route, just look around a decent home improvement store for ideas. There are many systems available these days to build custom desks and racks the easy way. I designed my own desk with a 3D CAD program and got all the measures for the pabels from that. Had everything sawed to the correct size at the store and only needed to screw everything together at home.

There are some pictures floating around in the 'studio pics' topic, but if you missed it, here's a picture of my desk:

Studio furniture - desk..