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Jimmy_W wrote on 5/5/2005, 3:12 PM
Man thats a great question. Anybody have any sources? I found plenty of Audio type desk.

Jimmy
mjroddy wrote on 5/5/2005, 3:30 PM
Might want to try
http://www.winsted.com/
www.markertek.com
and...
well that's all I currently have at my fingertips. There is more, though. Have you googled "NLE furniture"?
Please post your findings here. I think many of us are curious.
epirb wrote on 5/5/2005, 3:34 PM
heres a few cool sites Ive looked at in the past wish I had the bucks for the ones I want.
http://www.omnirax.com/aboutomni.htm

http://www.anthro.com/_applications/ContentCreation.asp

http://www.avfurnitureplus.com/home

http://www.homecomputerfurniture.com/specialoffers.html

http://www.middleatlantic.com/rackac/main.htm

http://www.luxorfurn.com/template/store.cfm?majorid=2&cfid=425252&cftoken=228801&r=865447040000



Spot|DSE wrote on 5/5/2005, 3:58 PM
OmniRax builds great custom gear, they did a really nice desk and bay for two of our rooms. They will either sell you what they build as stock, or they will build you a custom setup that doesn't cost much more than what they build for ship, unless it's terribly different from their normal fare. Great people, too.
Argosy stuff is really sexy too. http://www.argosyconsole.com/aura260.htm and not too pricey for what it is.
I like this sort better myself, because it allows cables and whatnot to be easily hidden.
Yoyodyne wrote on 5/5/2005, 5:01 PM
Great thread - I'm in the process of planning a total edit bay redisign (not that the current one has any real design to it at all...) & have been trying to find cool and functional furniture. Man this stuff is expensive! The other problem is it seems most desks are set up for stereo monitoring - I need something with space for a center speaker. Thanks for all the links everybody - this is hugely helpful!

Have not seen this one posted - check these guys out, amazing furniture but pretty spendy - I've been drooling over it for a couple of weeks now...

http://www.tbcconsoles.com/index.htm

Any tips on good places to get cheap accoustical treatment products - I'm looking at the Auralex stuff -I've had good luck with the stuff I have & am finally going to totally treat the room. Seems like it will cost about a thousand bucks but If someone has some tips I'm all ears :)
RNLVideo wrote on 5/5/2005, 6:21 PM
Anthro stuff (www.anthro.com) is awesome.... We purchased a set at work and I just ordered another batch from them. Too bad I can't afford to do the same for home.....

Rick
MyST wrote on 5/5/2005, 6:52 PM
It always depends on how much you want to spend.
A couple years ago I spent a whole $45 to make my own.

http://www.vegasusers.com/forum/disptopic?u=studio/finally__my_new_workde/

I've got a few different designs drawn up at work. Depends on what equipment you want to use. Dual displays, surround speakers as mentioned, etc.
Most of my equipment has changed since the picture, but I'm still running only one display. However, I've move it to the left, and on the right I have a 13" TV for ext monitoring, and the small center surround speaker between them.

I figure a no-holds-barred design would probably run me under $200 in materials. I'd do the cutting, welding, painting myself. That would be another option for you. If you know what you want, take your design to a local metal fabrication shop, and see how much they'd charge you to build it.

Mario
StrobeAlific wrote on 5/5/2005, 8:39 PM
I got a great deal on a used desk from http://www.tvprogear.com

tell them Marc Bowyer sent you :)
garo wrote on 5/5/2005, 9:54 PM
1. And while we're on the subject are there any suggestions as to "shelving" or whatever for the piles of DV tapes I stack in no particular order .. (last week they just got knocked off the shelf above my desk so now even the chronlogicalness of them got messed up too).
2. I've tried maintaining a reference document as to content in each tape in a hand-written booklet - updating it as I use the tapes (many with VERY varied content) any suggestions there?

//Garo
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/5/2005, 9:57 PM
There are several companies that make racks to hold Mini DV and DAT tapes. Bryco, MediaLocaters both make them that hold 10, 25, 50, 100 tapes. VERY handy for projects. Mount em' to the wall or put them in a drawer.
zdogg wrote on 5/5/2005, 11:35 PM
HI:

One word:

IKEA.

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=12&categoryId=10389&langId=-1&parentCats=10121*10389&cattype=sub

My recommended POWERHOUSE (and cheap, not $45 but still pretty inexpensive) Combo:

The JERKER (which is kind of a rack really) computer stand cmbined with the GALLANT desk with perhaps the optional "A" legs with castors. The two units now mesh together into a nice complex wrkstation. Thus configured, the Gallant is a rollable desk butting up into the Jerker - which now serves for shelve space. Also, you have different table top sizes available for the GALLANT.

This combo should run about $250-300 USD depending on sizes and extras.



How to set up.
JERKER: Raise its 'table" surface up to maybe 45' or about a foot above your working desktop area, which is your GALLANT table. This provides you a nice wide - AND DEEP - area for your monitors and other stuff. On my lower table I have mixers and controller sufaces, recorders. For the JERKER you can buy "add on" shelves as well and they are great. A real cool one is the wing shelf --You can add 1-4 of thes I would think. They swing in/out horizontally, and can be attached at any vertical level AND hold a fair amount of weight. . I've got a 27' TV monitor on my lone wing shelf (stiff-wire bound around the bottom in case of CAL earthquake action.)

Sitting above all of this, I have two JBL poered monitors on a higher length spanning extra shelf. This set up looks good, allows me to move the table in/out to do patching, and is real solid. the wing shelves would also serve nicely for Audio monitors.

Z