Development User Stories (Part Five) - Useable Rack Spaces When Not Racked

Development User Stories (Part Five) - Useable Rack Spaces When Not Racked

We designed the Platform Studio Desk to be useful with or without all of the spaces racked. In this blog, we'll explore the user story that led to this design decision and the depth of the desktop ...
The Quincy Jones Mixtape
Ponderings

The Quincy Jones Mixtape

On Monday we lost Quincy Jones, one of the most talented and prolific musicians/arrangers/producers who has ever walked this planet. There's been no shortage of deserved platitudes coming from many...
Creativity in the Season of Anxiety
Ponderings

Creativity in the Season of Anxiety

A lot of times a constant low level anxiety can lead to a kind of nefarious paralysis where it’s just difficult to get anything done. Here we find ourselves, with an election already underway, that...
Avoiding the Master of None (Part Three) - Specific Depths for Producers
Studio Collection

Avoiding the Master of None (Part Three) - Specific Depths for Producers

The depths of each tier of the Platform Studio Desk were carefully considered not only for the ergonomics of producing music, but with the acoustics of mixing in mind.
Avoiding the Master of None (Part Two) - Specific Heights for Producers
Studio Collection

Avoiding the Master of None (Part Two) - Specific Heights for Producers

Having a purpose built music production desk allows us to focus better on the task at hand of making music, assuming it’s organized for that task, and has proper ergonomics. 
Development User Stories (Part Four) - You're Not Jeff Bezos
Studio Collection

Development User Stories (Part Four) - You're Not Jeff Bezos

We realize that you’re not Jeffrey friggin’ Bezos, but we're confident that we delivered compelling products with the Studio Collection that provide much more value than similarly priced hacks, Ets...
Avoiding the Master of None (Part One) - Clutter Is the Mind-Killer
Studio Collection

Avoiding the Master of None (Part One) - Clutter Is the Mind-Killer

Optimizing different spaces with purpose built furniture allows us to focus better on the task at hand, assuming the space is organized for that task. There’s a saying that a cluttered space is ind...
Hearing Is Wasted on the Young
Ponderings

Hearing Is Wasted on the Young

Investing in good earplugs is at least as important as your investment in studio monitors.
Development User Stories (Part Three) - A Production Desk Instead of a Piano
Studio Collection

Development User Stories (Part Three) - A Production Desk Instead of a Piano

Pianos are often the centerpieces of shared living spaces where music isn't the main purpose of the room. Why can't a music production studio desk be that?
Development User Stories (Part Two) - A Desk Non Musicians Will Love Too
Studio Collection

Development User Stories (Part Two) - A Desk Non Musicians Will Love Too

This week's user story: My significant other hates the look of my studio furniture that looks more at home on a Sci-Fi set. I want something that looks like it came from an actual furniture design ...
Development User Stories (Part One) - An Introduction
Studio Collection

Development User Stories (Part One) - An Introduction

It may seem like overkill to incorporate waterfall and Scrum processes into furniture design, but user experience is a thing regardless of the type of product, it’s a language we professionally spe...
Common Pro Studio Attributes (Part Four) - Bass Management is Foundational
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Common Pro Studio Attributes (Part Four) - Bass Management is Foundational

Most of the difficulty in recording and mixing happens below 1kHz where the fundamentals of most instruments are fighting it out, and especially below 400Hz in the mud of the mix, which is below t...