Our new Mastering Desk is great for 5.1 setups and boasts two acoustically correct 8 RU top racks and durable black textured wood legs. The 48” wide ergonomically designed rear monitor tray allows for dual monitor support as well as sonically integrated 5.1 center channel speaker placement. Designed to work with any mixer, it works well with control surfaces such as Euphonix, Mackie Control, Digi 003, Digidesign Command 8, CME Bitstream, or most other control surface that do not fit into one of our form fitting custom consoles.
Read what EQ Magazine says about Todd Beeten's acoustical design sense
(Source: Ergonomics for Engineering Autonomy Jul 2007)
ELEVATED THINKING
Todd Beeten, owner of Sound Construction & Supply in Nashville, plays the angles. When he built studios at Soundtracks in New York and Clint Black’s home in Nashville, he factored the angles of virtually everything into both his acoustical and ergonomic calculations. “A Neve console has 14° of elevation [from front to back] — that’s no accident,” he says, underscoring how well-thought-out many classic pieces of gear are. Newer mixers tend to lie flatter, such as the 4° of rake on the Digidesign Pro Control mixer. Beeten’s response is to increase the rake implicitly in the furniture he builds to hold mixers. Black’s mixing surface has an additional 3° of rake built in, giving the mixer surface a total of 7°. This also has a subtle but perceptible and positive effect on reach and the ability to visually check metering and other cues.
Good ergonomics requires three-dimensional thinking, Beeten stresses. “The world isn’t flat and neither is your work area,” he says. Elevation considerations go beyond the console and extend to speaker and outboard placement. One of the byproducts of the proliferation of digital technology is work-area clutter — even some desktop video editing stations now routinely have two flat-screen monitors. This, says Beeten, compels the entire body to constantly adjust itself within the space, which in turn distorts the relationship between the aim (thus, the accuracy) of the monitors and the listener. Beeten is a builder with a high level of acoustical awareness, and as such seems more willing than more traditional acoustically-oriented studio designers to propose compromises between ergonomics and sonic perfection. He suggests flexible armature supports for monitors that allow them to be adjusted quickly according to the user’s position in the workspace. “Bring the monitors to you rather than adapting your physical position to accommodate them,” he says. “You’ll last longer.”
(Source: Ergonomics for Engineering Autonomy Jul 2007)
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Of course, custom configurations for the mastering desk or any of our recording studio furniture are available.
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