Building The Ultimate Studio Desk 

Love those classic rdavidr backing tracks, like you used in your super early vids. Gives the content such a chill, fun vibe

That's a solid desk! ...built to an apocalyptic standard! Love the music too!

Simple and sweet just what I have been looking for to base my computer desk on.

My 8PreX has never let me down and sounds great. You'll love it, David!

Desk lookin pretty good man can’t wait to see the 100% finished product

With whatever you do, one cannot expect anything other than perfection.

your videos are always so fresh and interesting, keep em coming

I like how you put the rack rails, that is clever!

Love these kind of videos, Dave.

Not only your a good fantastic drummer but your a handyman too. Good job dave. I remember when you were at 5k subs. Man that was a long time ago. I remember your old place with the secret room or space in your old studio. That was rdavidr og days.

Glued, screwed, and tattooed! Always interesting to see other approaches to the same problem - I just finished building a studio desk and tried to make a point of using as few fasteners as possible and keeping it lightweight enough to haul up and down the stairs to my apartment. I guess when you have a ground floor woodshop, different problems come into focus. Nice build!

Love that top part. Think I might make something like that for the minimal hardware gear that I have.

Normal drummers: this is my dream drum kit Rdavidr: this is my dream desk 😂

Dude the focusrite is a winner, the octo pre as an addition is super nice too for the larger set ups.

This desk is one of the best if seen from a drummer. It looks really good

Sweet desk and nice idea with space for the midi keyboard!

Awesome desk!

some of my absolute favourite tunes going on in the BG there - the storm is over Isaac Hayes 👌👌👌👌

Sweetwater is seriously the best. Killer work in this!!

Awesome build!

Great vid David!

Offsetting the rails with a piece of ply screwed on during install is brilliant.

That pocket hole jig is cool. I was building cymbal boxes and I used that jig. It’s strong af

Sweet!!! I'm drooling.

I don't even care if there's a single drum in your videos I can watch and listen to you talk for hours about anything you did in your house that was useful

love these kind of videos ❤️ keep them coming plz

Why is it always that right when I start contemplating projects, you and Dan Thompson post about those projects? Now I gotta go spend money.

Very nice work!

Nice desk, I am planning to build one for myself. I like the torsion box idea and use of plywood. Not sure about the mayo, that would be mess in my hands. Thanks for making this video, it's very helpful for small DIY people like me.

looking for some insperation and guidence for a new desk at work and boom not only an awesome desk but you actually made pdf plans aswell, gotta make some time to build this now

New Yankee Workshop (without the Nantucket accent). Between your killer drum, recording, photography, and woodworking skills, I'm surprised Create or PBS hasn't picked you up yet. Love your stuff!

An high quality vid I like it its very nice yt needs more vids like that

Good work! Looks good

Love the way on how you make your videos🔥

I have the 18i20 from Focusrite. They steered you right. also great desk, looks super solid but super heavy. I did a real solid one with equipment racks as well. tore it down when i moved.

A sexy desk for a sexy interface. Well done sir.

This video helped me out a lot so I would like to say thanks

Jesus, that thing is going to be sturdy AF!!

Well done job, i loved it

finally stumbled across this channel of yours and this video just gave me an idea for a video editing workstation (3 VCR's,2 or 3 Monitors,and 1 CRT TV plus RF modulator) with a rather beasty PC to boot. all running Movie Maker,and Open Shot Video Editor.

Love your videos dude. BTW I'm the guy who bought your cowbell a couple years ago lol

Nice build man! You should think about something like a walnut veneer for that beast.

Thank you for the informative videos!

Loving those stickers

Looking absolutely fantastic, man. I'm still trying to figure out how I want the stand for the screen and rack for the interfaces to be in my place. Been testing a little bit, and I fear if I do it the way I was first thinking, my neck will hate me for slightly looking upwards at the monitor. Hmm, we'll see.

Man good work

Im just about to do the same. Love a good desk

Pretty sweet. I recently made a 10’ 9” desk with printer stand for the office and a 6’ floating desk for the kids on opposite wall.

Great video n great Jon, i Made muy own desk un PVC panel here un Puerto Rico thanks BROU. Nice job

That's a dream desk!!

I'll be dmned. This is almost exactly the design I just completed. Not quite as umm heavy as this but similar in that it is a 3 piece modular design. I handled the upper issues with a wall mounted shelf 19" above the 29" desk height. A keyboard on the desktop is still a bit higher than a resting piano keyboard but its hard to go any lower and still have decent leg clearance. Nice job!.

Bro, you built this desk like a tank. I love it.

man this is dope! so jealous! please upload a new 100% finished version when you get a chance, i'd love to see it.

Beautiful design sir I like it

Quite excellent

Hells yeah Brazilian Love Affair playing from the get go

This is awesome

That outfeed table, wanttttt

Part II?? Can’t wait for it

looks good

Man this is fantastic! All I'd do different is a keyboard tray for my midi controller. I don't like it on the desktop. Love this desk dude! :D

That’s dope.

Yes finally !

Dave you're awesome

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wow that is actually a sick desk

You awesome cool project love your channel keep great work

I LOVE FLORA!!!

I ordered one of your hoodies 👌🏾😤

RU-vid has such a need for videos like these, even as a montage there's not many build vids for studio desks like this. Great job!! Ballpark guessing, how much would you say the materials list was for this?

Hey Man cool work a fan from Montréal

this guy is an actual craftsman, behold

Brilliant

Bomshelter desk haha looks good.

Damn, being this skilled and handy must rule so hard.

Dirty Dave is the Bob Vila of Drums

next time i would suggest putting mineral wool or other acoustically damping material in the gaps of the torsion box. this prevents it from being a big resonance chamber, which is important when you plan on mixing with monitor speakers on the desk.

Freakin wow!!!

Great design. I’m in the process of building one. Both The side cabinets are 1/2 in off plumb. Any advise on how to get them plumb before drawers? Thanks!

Love the desk. did you ever get it all finished up?

How much do I love your content? The internet is out and I'm using my slow ass data to buffer the video

Really good desk

That's cool, but can you figure out the instructions for an Ikea desk?

Hello, first of all amazing job !!!!! I wanted to know what size are the panels? 1,8mm or 2;2mm??

That thing is a tank, nicely done. I only wish the video was longer D:

the size of your desk is amazing! I wish I had that much space at my house :D But the screens are way too high... if find that always so uncomfortable to work on desks with screens that high up... But that is obviously a very personal choice :)

Quality over quantity

I love Sweetwater

I use solid core doors for my studio desk builds

A birch plywood 4x8 is 70 lbs. So this is a ~ 400lbs+ beast :O... You look built but you will need help moving that lol. Can't wait to see how you make it pretty.

Yo! nice build... question is where did you get that sweet KORG sticker for your toolbox in the back?

Finally!

I'm making a desk like yours but made out of an old solid wood door, its sitting on large cardboard boxes at the moment but I'll make the base at some point.

4:19 is perfect

Daym! I wont say overbuilt though. Very similar to what I have been envisioning for my space. May I ask exactly how did Sweetwater support this project? Thanks.

Make a video about that Jupiter snare!

If your desk isn’t rated to withstand an EF-3+ is it really a desk?

do you have a full measurement breakdown by any chance?

David are you gonna sell or give away any of your old gear?

I love it