dosuna11 wrote:When you figure out a cabling combination that is soft on the eyes please post as I have been consumed with cable madness for way too long.
I had to design and build a studio desk to accommodate that.
(Click pictures for a larger version)
1. This shows the wooden channels that contain the cables and direct them down under the desk. Each is hinged with a latch. The 7 pictures in this series compilation show the doors open to varying degrees, or closed. See the larger version to make sense of it.
2. This is where they all come out, under the desk. Some follow a plastic "hose" to the control console. Most plug into various power strips mounted in the open frame of the desk. These pictures were taken 12 years ago. There are 3 times that many cables now.
3. This is the control console, which rolls out in a "drawer" beneath the keyboard. It also holds a trackball or trackpad on a turntable, all retract into the desk when not in use. The 7 switches you see under the Kurzweil and above the trackball can turn on two groups of rack gear, audio interfaces, near-field monitors, various lights, and the Kurzweil, which itself rolls in and out, with the desk folding down over it to cover it completely when not in use.
4. Console and trackball platform retracted. Keyboard retracted. Drawers retracted.
Not for everyone, but this desk has served me very, very well over the past 12 years. It took over a year to design, and several months to build.
Shooshie