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The Studio Desk

A computer desk is made for your desktop or laptop computer and not your music equipment (duh). It specializes in having a display monitor as its centerpiece, sometimes raised slightly. A place to store the computer keyboard, which will often slide underneath the main shelf. A small area for you to put your mouse on. Sometimes it will even come with an attached compartment inside or outside for the hard drive to rest on. Notice I didn't say anything about music equipment (duh again, you're not stupid) If you are really serious about building a home studio it's time to move your computer desk into your parents or sibling's room, trash it or sell it in the newspaper classifieds, Ebay or Craigslist. Anyway you get rid of that wood obstruction is fine, just as long as it's not part of your studio. WHY? Because you start looking unprofessional in a jiffy with your mixer on crates, your audio interface behind the computer display montior, you phantom power sitting on your piles of dirty magazines, you studio monitors used as a mouse pad, unnecessary cd rack your computer desk may have attached to it, taking too much space and not holding any CD cases whatsoever anyway since you've upgraded to your trusty Ipod or Zune and that's not even taking into consideration where you're gonna put your pre-amp and outboard equipment. So now you say "That ridiculous, I can just buy a mixer stand and a monitor stand and put my phantom power, audio-interface, pre-amp and external outboard equipment on fold-up coffee tables or something". What's ridiculous is you want to spend $349.99 too look unprofessional than spend $99.99 on a standard studio desk which though ahead for music equipment placement and looks professional on top of that. An added bonus is usually underneath where the display monitor rest is a space dedicated to the racks or outboard gear you've collected. Don't say you can but a stand and a fold-up coffee table for that too or you've just added to your resume to make a grand total $450.00 of unprofessional and illogical idiot-spending-money, right out of your pocket and into the hands of the big corporations (give yourself a pat on the back, another sucker is born everyday). Do yourself a favor right from the beginning and get the damn studio desk, if you're not using a large mixer you never know when you're gonna need that front space for something like a keyboard workstation or midi controller, saving you money and space on buying the stand.


RECOMMENDED PROFESSIONAL STUDIO DESKS (Sorted by price, lowest to highest)


Studio RTA Mix Station
Price: $99.99

- slide-out keyboard tray
- rear privacy panel
- 6 space rack in upper section
- 4 caster (2 locking)


Studio RTA Creation Station Studio Desk
Price: $199.99

- 2 large work surfaces
- Full Length monitor shelf
- Dual full space 19" rack bay
- 4 casters (2 locking)

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