Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Post Your Workstation Pics!

Jonathan Stevenson

Jonathan Stevenson

Well-known member
Joined
Nov 20, 2008
Messages
1,829
Reaction score
0
Points
36
Location
Denver
Hey Everyone,

My business partner and I are rebuilding his basement this fall. It's a 400 sqft basement and we're going to gut it and completely re-build it into a bad ass editing Man-Cave. So, what kind of desks work best for editing? What would be a good layout? How should we light the room? What color should we paint the damn walls?

So far, we plan on having 2 Mac Pro dual screen workstations with Red Rockets and Rocket BOB's, a 46" Panasonic Plasma for playback, maybe a projector, a couch or two if they fit, wall outlets for HDMI and XLR, a phone-booth sized Audio booth, a modest sized server rack, and more...

If you have the ultimate workstation, we'd love to see pics. Thanks everyone!
 
That sounds very cool, I am thinking of re-doing my basement as well. I definitely could use a man-cave:thumbsup:
 
What I would say is make sure you have a sub-floor. If a pipe breaks or there is flooding you don't want anything to get wet. Add to the security system a flood sensor. For walls you can get products that won't absorb water. Sound proofing for the ceiling. Dimmable lighting. Separate the lighting into groups and have seperate switches....task, general.... . Wiring for power, install GFCI breakers in the panel. If you have a long desk use cable management systems with plugs every 12 inches.

Check out this company, you can get their stuff at home depot:
http://www.legrand.us/Wiremold/Raceway/Nonmetallic-Raceway/Single-Channel-Raceway/Plugmold-Plus-NM2000-Multioutlet-Raceway/NM2000.aspx

Indirect lighting for working that way no glare on screens.
 

Attachments

  • ABC58FB125AF4905A827CF083C53BEC1.ashx.jpg
    ABC58FB125AF4905A827CF083C53BEC1.ashx.jpg
    58.6 KB · Views: 0
This is just a kick ass office setup here that I found googling.
 

Attachments

  • E40EF.jpg
    E40EF.jpg
    69.2 KB · Views: 0
Here is a pic of ours, nothing special, we still need to work a little on the lighting and I want to switch out the samsung LCD for a panisonic plasma. We built the desk ourselves and are working on building a second desk for our other workstation. We painted the wall a certian grey from sherman williams that I saw some where on a forum its a lot cheaper that the real calibrated grey paint:blush5:
 

Attachments

  • desk.jpg
    desk.jpg
    62 KB · Views: 0
John Saunders said:
Here is a pic of ours, nothing special, we still need to work a little on the lighting and I want to switch out the samsung LCD for a panisonic plasma. We built the desk ourselves and are working on building a second desk for our other workstation. We painted the wall a certian grey from sherman williams that I saw some where on a forum its a lot cheaper that the real calibrated grey paint:blush5:
Click to expand...
Dude, this is exactly what we're going for. Love the hardwood floors, but does it mess with your acoustics at all? How hard was it to build the desk?
 
The wood floors don't really mess with the sound all that much for what we do if I wanted to get into audio mastering then I would do something different and also have some treatment but for the work that we do it isn't necessary. The desk wasn't to hard to build if you are some what handy. If you want I will try and dig up the dimensions/drawings. I modeled it off of a desk I saw online that was like $3k and I thought I could do it for cheaper. I think the it cost like $400 for all of the wood, paint, and laminate.
 
John Saunders said:
The wood floors don't really mess with the sound all that much for what we do if I wanted to get into audio mastering then I would do something different and also have some treatment but for the work that we do it isn't necessary. The desk wasn't to hard to build if you are some what handy. If you want I will try and dig up the dimensions/drawings. I modeled it off of a desk I saw online that was like $3k and I thought I could do it for cheaper. I think the it cost like $400 for all of the wood, paint, and laminate.
Click to expand...
If you still have the dimensions, that'd be so awesome if you shared them with me. Thanks so much!!
 
Here are the basic dimensions. If you have autocad or something that you can open and work with a .dwg file I can send you the file with more details. Also if you are interested the paint I was talking about is:
sherman williams
"7071 gray screen"
BAC 0Z 32 64 128
B1-BLACK - 17 1 -
Y3-DEEP GOLD - 4 1 -
 

Attachments

which ones?

Audio: krk V6

40" LCD: some 1080p samsung (it was laying around and I didn't want to
take the 50" panasonic from our viewing/theater area)

Computer: I'm pretty sure that they are the Samsung 2433BW, we bought them when we bought our new G5 in november to go with our old G5. We were going to use the Apple cinema display with the new one but once we set them up we decided that there was not enough difference and that we liked the larger screen and higher resolution of the samsungs, so we put them on the new system.

CRT: Old sony 17" BVM

Did I miss any? ;)
 
Cool! Thank's so much! I was wondering bout the desktop ones since they looked really good with that LCD above it. But brilliant set up overall! Amazed you got 4 monitors going at once...

Jonathan,There's a bunch of set up's on flickr if you take a look there, though I don't like many of them because they seem rather crammed up compared to John's set up...
I'll try to find the links and post em here later
 
edit2.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top