dalejw
17th February 2007, 12:11 PM
Here's a bit of a different one.
The trouble with a lot of music gear is that it needs to be cabled together with power cables, audio cables and MIDI cables. By the time you've got 5 or 6 pieces of gear with 5 cables haning out of the back of them things start to resemble a spaghetti factory.
After we'd finished the renovation on the house I wanted to keep the music gear in the main part of the house rather than cramming it into the spare bedroom so started designing a desk to put it all in. The brief from the missus was that it had to look like a piece of furniture. 8 months after I started it the brief became more like "would you finish that f%$#ing desk or throw it out" but that's beside the point.
All the rack gear is on ball bearing runners so you can get to the back to plug in cables and rewire pieces of equipment.
There's in built cable trays at the back so cables don't hang down into view.
The trouble with a lot of music gear is that it needs to be cabled together with power cables, audio cables and MIDI cables. By the time you've got 5 or 6 pieces of gear with 5 cables haning out of the back of them things start to resemble a spaghetti factory.
After we'd finished the renovation on the house I wanted to keep the music gear in the main part of the house rather than cramming it into the spare bedroom so started designing a desk to put it all in. The brief from the missus was that it had to look like a piece of furniture. 8 months after I started it the brief became more like "would you finish that f%$#ing desk or throw it out" but that's beside the point.
All the rack gear is on ball bearing runners so you can get to the back to plug in cables and rewire pieces of equipment.
There's in built cable trays at the back so cables don't hang down into view.