dan88z

we have a 4x6 with grommets. I found it's hard to get it to stay tight, so I zip tied a piece of pvc to it via the grommets. Then I can use the built in tie ups it has and hang it from ceilings, etc. We dont' use it everywhere, some venues just don't have a good place for it.

Thanks! This was a fun project to do. The desk itself is made of 3/4" plywood, but the kind that has 1 real nice side for finishing. The trim is just a plain pine trim, no ornamentation or anything. I used a black stain I had leftover from doing a floor in my son's room. We were looking at ebony and it wasn't dark enough so they mixed it up for us at Lowe's. After that dried and was sanded lightly, I did another coat with a color called Early American. The pine trim is also done with the early american color. It is all water based stain. I finished it with about 4 coats of water based poly to seal it. I think my total cost was about $75 which included the wood, trim, drawer hardware, and poly. I already had the stain and I reused rack rails I already had for the side with all the components, and made wood inserts to act as rails for the mixer side. The monitor arm I have now was about $100 but that was a gift certificate from work so it was really free.

I built one a few months back. I put my main keyboard on the desktop and built a keyboard drawer for the computer keyboard. I found that my video monitor was way too high with this setup, and I've since obtained one of those ergonomic arms that lets you swing the monitor whereever you want, and I'm using an LCD screen now. It's much better that way. I can have it sitting just above my S90ES, and if I need to get to the components in the racks, I swing it out of the way.