Here's mine after I finished work today:
Built a pair of heavy as fuck monitor stands, the bottom and top are 12"x14" and the column is 8" square on the outside. The columns are filled to the top (shaken/tamped down too so they are full) with 70lbs of sand each. All constructed out of 3/4" thick MDF, which alone is like ~20-25lbs each All the seams are caulked and after it was all built I spray painted it with flat black. Mofos are almost 100lbs each, but... after building them I set my monitors on them without the MoPads and right away I heard a really noticeable difference. I was previously using some Sony hifi speakers as stands, they were the perfect height However, they are basically hollow and now I can tell how much resonance they had. The stands made my monitors sound a lot cleaner, especially the low end. Then I put the MoPads under the monitors... If you have $30 right now and don't have some, get some.
I also modified my desk. The rack shelf you see now was once much taller and had a cd storage bullshit on the right, bla bla. I destroyed all that nonsense and picked up some 4U rack rails from GC for $10/pair. Made 3 "legs" out of leftover 3/4" MDF and painted them black, screwed it all up and dropped in my gear. Looks so much better now than having a rack to the side of me taking up space.
Anyway, that's my bitch.
Built a pair of heavy as fuck monitor stands, the bottom and top are 12"x14" and the column is 8" square on the outside. The columns are filled to the top (shaken/tamped down too so they are full) with 70lbs of sand each. All constructed out of 3/4" thick MDF, which alone is like ~20-25lbs each All the seams are caulked and after it was all built I spray painted it with flat black. Mofos are almost 100lbs each, but... after building them I set my monitors on them without the MoPads and right away I heard a really noticeable difference. I was previously using some Sony hifi speakers as stands, they were the perfect height However, they are basically hollow and now I can tell how much resonance they had. The stands made my monitors sound a lot cleaner, especially the low end. Then I put the MoPads under the monitors... If you have $30 right now and don't have some, get some.
I also modified my desk. The rack shelf you see now was once much taller and had a cd storage bullshit on the right, bla bla. I destroyed all that nonsense and picked up some 4U rack rails from GC for $10/pair. Made 3 "legs" out of leftover 3/4" MDF and painted them black, screwed it all up and dropped in my gear. Looks so much better now than having a rack to the side of me taking up space.
Anyway, that's my bitch.
