Excellent choice, I think it’s their sleeper hit for those who click with it! Have fun 
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A Passive Big Knob. Ever since getting the Push 3 controller last year and using it as my main interface I couldn’t just easily play with just hardware without having a computer involved or having to plug and replug my monitors all the time. Intentions are to easily switch between Push and mixer 
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Big knob, but an even bigger box!
Curious to see what you end up going with. Some interesting ideas I’ve seen recently are aluminium C-profile sections (or whatever it’s called, three sided square tube basically). Can store small things in the channel and stuff in between. But probably not tall enough for patch cables and these drawers.
Because cables can get unruly, another idea could be timber dividers running the length of the drawers with maybe a dowel towards the back perpendicular running through the timber so you can poke the jack of the patch cables underneath the dowel.
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Picked up a Polyend Mess yesterday. Quite happy with it, it’s pretty much perfect for hardware synth set ups if you want sequenced/sequenceable multi FX. I plan on sending CC LFO messages at it from the Hapax for even more modulation.
A downside is that it’s sold without a power supply & there’s nothing obvious from Polyend about using a centre positive or negative PSA. So the sales dude & I guesstimated a standard 500mA Boss PSA would work (it’s sold as a guitar pedal and the standard for them is centre negative). So far I seem to have gotten away with it. Good thing is the shop’s OK with a refund if the power’s wrong.
Here’s a short beat using it on the Syntakt & in the mix. Apologies if double posting short tracks isn’t OK, I also put this in the 3rd Current Sounds thread.
The Mess is like a spice blend. Get the balance right with other ingredients in your productions & it adds a nice base. I almost talked myself out of buying it because most demos for it have honestly kinda sucked. Too many guitarists not getting the sequencer thing & too many synth heads not knowing where to use it in their set up.
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I don’t have the wide one, but I have the Alex desk and more narrow side drawer set.
In the desk, I’ve lined the insides with an adhesive fabric for jewelry boxes. I think it’s called velvet flock backing paper? I did this because I hated when things shift around upon open/closing the drawers, I hated that the screws are exposed on the inside (good for scratches on any stored gear) and I like that it can look clean.
Otherwise, after buying some different dividers, I realized the better option for me is DIY, cutting boxes to fit.
I would cover those DIY dividers in the same material, but I’m still downsizing and shifting some things around, so it wouldn’t make sense at this time.
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Ah, nice. That old idoim RTFM proves its worth again. Would’ve been nice if they’d put that on the specs part of the webpage or some kind of icon next to the 9-18VDC text.
Never knew it was possible to be compatible with both polarities. Mainly because I’m a numpty.
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Yeah 
For the big foam to keep it in its big place.
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Looking to get something like this to the kids LEGO. It needs some kind of sorting
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I hadn’t heard of this one - it looks great!
“Center negative or positive” it depends on your mood on a particular day.
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I’m leaning on the positive side!
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Do these still massively color the sound the way the originals did? A friend of mine had one and after discovering what it did to every signal running through it he tossed it and never looked back haha
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I use the passive mackie bigknob and have never noiced a change in sound, though never A/B’d .
Just found this article useful and my take away was its easy to get caught up worrying in to small a detail, while millions of excellent music has been made on analogue gear.
The benefit of the use truely outways any non perceived difference in output (it ain’t getting recorded anyway).
Q. Is there a monitor controller that won’t colour the sound? https://share.google/ymnD9z0bu4YYafKgb
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I just purchased an ableton move and I’m super happy with it
I use it as my main sound producing hardware which I want to then record with my iPad
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This passive one that I got shouldn’t really. But even if it did I wouldn’t be too bothered. My listening situation is far from ideal.
Thanks for the ideas!
Actually IKEA has interesting system for deep kitchen drawers that could work nicely. The rods would have to be shortened with a saw though. Anyways a modular system like this one would be perfect solution if it was not heavy.
I will probably end up prototyping something with cardboard and scotch tape as suggested by @elxsound
https://www.ikea.com/cz/cs/p/uppdatera-organizer-do-zasuvky-antracit-60460008/
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