HELP!!! What's everyone with a decent sized analog mixing board doing for a stand?

Do you have 16+ inputs? What are you doing for a stand? I've got my Soundcraft on a heavy duty keybaord stand right now but the arms just ain't that long its making me nervous. Its not trying to jump off and the stand can hold over 4x the weight of the console.... but shit happens! and its kinda lame looking. My red velvet command chair says 'making vibey records' but my stand says 'Jim is cheapskate.'

I can't seem to find a lot of mid format console furniture, this thing is the size of a desk so what do i do with it? I can't just put it on a computer desk, its that big or bigger. I'm going to heavy steel stand route already. Is there any other off the shelf option that could maybe get me some real estate for a pair of nearfields or is everything else bespoke and expensive?

Someone must know about this stuff. I've never bought furniture like this before, I just worked places that were furnished! Now I'm trying to put a real post room in my house for the pandemic and its a rabbit hole.

HELP!

-one stressed out mix engineer

I’ve been using one of those garage sale style white folding tables for about three years now, and that has suited my gigantic Peavey XR1600 powered mixer and some computer stuff. At one point I had a Mackie SR24 and SR32 both on it rigged up together. It now holds my Allen & Heath GL3300 (40 channel heavy SOB) just fine! Threw a more appealing tapestry over it and it doesn’t look too awful either.

I'm more in GL3300 weight. That's a thought

any other ideas besides a table? kinda trying to move the other direction and feel classier....

I'm out of depth on this one, but you used 3 exclamation points... so I have a moral obligation to try. I did some searching yesterday... man, the options suck. I see what you mean.

Seems like it's one of these 3:

1. Folding metal "Z style" stand that magically happens to be deep enough to hold the mixer securely. I've seen a few of these that appear to be Soundcraft-branded and appropriately-sized, but nothing for sale. Can't even find a SKU#.

2. Used custom studio furniture from Craigslist that just happens to be a lucky fit.

3. Actual custom studio furniture... which will probably set you back more than the Soundcraft itself.

... how close are you to the skilled woodworkers of PA's Amish country?

close in proximity or close in philosophy? because I don't think they like me

close in proximity or close in philosophy? because I don't think they like me

geographically... but I was kinda joking on that last one.

I thought you were setting me up... I'm not far but I venture into Pensatucky with great caution.

Would the stand they offered for the Ghost be a potential fit?

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or is that still too low-rent looking?... and maybe too wide by like a foot?

I'll see. It's kinda classy. Thanks man.

I thought you were setting me up... I'm not far but I venture into Pensatucky with great caution.

How awesome would that be if I was like "Take the 30 to Lancaster county, hide your car at first underpass and walk 'til you see the first 2-story farmhouse... you'll be raising a barn and milking cows all weekend, but Eli will build you a desk that will survive your great grandchildren"?

its not unlike that... in the 90s it was a philly afterparty thing to drive out to Zinn's Diner in lancaster and eat pork Chops for breakfast... many were the times in both the techno community and goth/indusrial scene where freaks inundated Zinn's on a saturday morning and then milked some cows... or were we just really high and we hallucinated it?

its not unlike that... in the 90s it was a philly afterparty thing to drive out to Zinn's Diner in lancaster and eat pork Chops for breakfast... many were the times in both the techno community and goth/indusrial scene where freaks inundated Zinn's on a saturday morning and then milked some cows... or were we just really high and we hallucinated it?

its not really that much like witness

its not really that much like witness

let me have my dated, entirely Witness-based fantasy, lol.

scored by Jean Michell Jarre's dad, Maurice who also did Hitchcock's Topaz after the fiasco where Herman got fired from Torn Curtain

I re-watched Witness a few years ago. The all-synth soundtrack dates it a bit (though I love it), but it still stands up as a great film. I've yet to see a bad Peter Weir movie.

its not cheesy compared to Maurice's score for Dreamscape, oh man I love that one

its not cheesy compared to Maurice's score for Dreamscape, oh man I love that one

It's not cheesy, just dated. I love Dreamscape!

there was a period there where everything had a sound but somehow everything but John Hughes movies was still really unique. Like Bucaroo Bonzai could not be mistaken for Blade Runner which is not the Eurythmics soundtrck for 1984, and yet....