This was my old podcast setup. Main system screen is the black
lower LCD. The Podcast computer is the black computer that
you can see below the headphones.

This is the concept that I had that I drew up in Google Sketchup.
It’s a 3D CAD program that allows anyone to learn to to 3D
models. It’s easy and cool.

I was able to get the upper cabinet frames  mounted pretty
easily after I moved every thing from my podcast setup in the
armoire to a “temporary” setup.

“Insert Temporary setup photo here”

Temporary my foot. It has been like this for 4 months now.

Here is the lower main cabinet frame with foam pad liner for
sound absorbtion. I picked up the mats at Big Lots for about
$16. Cheap really considering accoustical padding or sound
absorbtion materials typically would run about $100 to $300 for
a cabinet this size. The hole you see just left of the center of
the back of the cabinet is for the main power wiring and
networking cables going to the wall receptacles and data ports
behind the cabinet when mounted.

Here is a close up of the wiring pass through. Its basically an
outdoor electrical outlet cover. I chose it because its big and will
allow 2 UPS or power strip type plugs to go through to the
receptical just behind the cabinet and all other wiring to go
through as well. Its a TayMac 55in1, 2-3/4″ deep, Double Gang
cover. It will have the door cover on it later and will help stop
sound from escaping the interior of the cabinet. You can see a
blue double gang spacer that is keeping the box wiring notches
from being burried in the foam.

Now I had to worry about heat build up in the cabinet as I plan
on having two computers and a UPS and who know what other
electronics stuffed in there. All I know was that I needed to move
a lot of air through that cabinet but do it quietly. So off to Radio
Shack I went to get two 120mm Thermaltake 78 CFM fans. Super
quiet and moves a lot of air. Just the ticket, but I wanted to
mount them in a plenum box that I could line accoustically, so,
already being at Radio Shack, I got two 7″x5″x3″ plastic project
boxes to mount the fans in. I wired in a DC power port adapter
into one of the boxes and a Molex connector to hook the fans up
to. I put my “Cold Heat” soldering gun and my mad soldering
skilz to the test!

Now here are the fan boxes mounted. Not too shabby.

Here is another shot but with a “stunt PC” to help show scale.
The cabinet is a standard 36″ Wide, 24″ High, and 24″ Deep Arlig
cabinet from Ikea. interior is just over 10 cu. ft. not counting the
space that the drawers take up and those two 78 CFM fans will
change out the air nearly eight times a minute. Well, not really
considering that since the doors and drawers will be closed, I
figure about four air changes per minute might happen unless I
put some baffled exhaust ports on that thing. Better than nothing.

Now here is a shot with all the doors and drawers on the main
cabinet. How sweet is that? Need to do some adjusting on the
doors to close that gap in the doors, but it might come in handy
for letting the warm air out. Now to put doors and drawers on
the rest.

Well, I got more done and I’m attempting to put video on the
page here. So let me know how this goes. I will be using the
desk for podcasting and want to minimize as much noise as
possible. So I have installed ‘anti-slam’ technology on all the
doors and drawers on the cabinets so if I have to open and
close them during a recording the sound would be minimal if
any.

Here is more video with the ‘anti-slam’ technology on the upper cabinets.