HELP ME ORGANIZE MY STUDIO!!!

WHAT UP...
MY STUDIO IS A COMPLETE MESS ANY ONE HAVE AND I DEAS OF HOW I CAN ORGANIZE IT!?!? I OFTEN FIN DMY SELF KNOCKING OVER SHIT AND HAVING CABLES IN TYHE WAY...THIS REALLY SLOWS DOWN MY WORK..ANY IDEAS??

reorganize, i had to switch my equipment around mad times to find a combination that saves space and keeps the room neat..

what do you have your equipment on now? and how much space do you have? if you've got room get a 2 teir a frame for the triton,mpc, and 303.your mixer can go on the desk with your cpu.make sure that your cables are long enough to go around everything so you don't have to pull cables over your equipment. keep everything in a comfortable working arrangement so you can get to it easily when you're ready to work.hope some of this helps.

Cables.......I hate cables...... that is one reason I do a lot of stuff with software now.

Having said that, you really need as many cables as possible so you can have everything permanently connected because you don't want to be searching for one end of a midi cable to get one module to work....then realise you've connected a midi input to another midi input.......& when you've got finally got that module working you realise the one your bass sound was on has now been disconnected!

Get a system for those cables. Write the name of each bit of equipment on its mains plug. Try & get some bright colored cables or put paper labels on them....anything so when you see that pile of plastic spaghetti on the floor you can make some sense of it.

If you have a lot of 19" modules get them bolted into a rack. Even if you've only got two or three stack them up and put some kind of ties through the rack ears.

There is a great company here in the UK called Studiospares who have all the stuff you need to organise your studio as well as a lot of the equipment to go in it.
http://www.studiospares.com

A good cabling tip would be to make your own. If you plan to leave your studio in a semi-static setup and not move things around once you've found the proper homes for everything, just get a spool of bulk audio cable and 1/4" connectors (and a solder-based patchbay and save on buying even more 1/4" connectors). Make all the cables to the exact right lengths, so that they comfortably reach the connections on your gear, leaving just a LITTLE extra so as not to strain the cables. If your studio gets a lot more crowded, also look at cable trays (they use them all the time in computer server rooms and in pro studios) and colored velcro ties so you can bundle the cables for each device together with a tie every couple feet. This may be way more complicated than the answer you're looking for, but I'm still up and tired as hell and felt likee typing this.

Peace,

MANiK