What are y’all using for storage in your music rooms?

[CoreyW]

I’ve found the my music room is getting more and more cluttered, I need to find a better storage solution than wire racks and cheap shelving units to organize and declutter my mess.

What are y’all using to store stuff like unused pedals, mics, other things that you want to keep accessible but out of the way when not in use?

 

[Floyd Eye]

You guys have music rooms ? Are you married ? Fuck, I bought a whole other house to give my wife something to do and I still don't have a music room. I have a spare bedroom with shit crammed in closets, stacks of amps and cabs and safes on a back wall and 3 of my dresser drawers are full of strings, pedals, batteries, straps and other assorted bullshit.

My trusty beater piece of chinese shit acoustic with a great neck and fantastic action is leaning against the wall behind me in the dining room right now.

 

[S̷͖͑m̵͎͂á̵̺s̸͚̈́h̴̬̑]

I’ve found the my music room is getting more and more cluttered, I need to find a better storage solution than wire racks and cheap shelving units to organize and declutter my mess.

What are y’all using to store stuff like unused pedals, mics, other things that you want to keep accessible but out of the way when not in use?

Shoe boxes and grocery bags....my guitar room looks fucking horrible right now..lmao

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

I have a cabinet I bought from home depot a while back. But, my room is such a mess that I can't get to it.

 

[skoora]

I use rack drawers for my pedals. One 4x12 holds 3 heads, Bass cab holds a few heads and I broke down and got the wire shelving so I could put a 2x12 in the bottom and multiple heads above (too many to stack on the 2x12. Now I have another 4x12 I can't do anything with. What's funny is how over the top it all sounds when you type it out. But when you look at it all, you just think, yep, I need that and I need that, oh, that too, nope not selling that etc etc etc.
1st world problems I guess.

 

[romanianreaper]

You guys need a dang man cave. This is a small area of mine. Good place to chill out, lol.

 

[skoora]

You guys need a dang man cave. This is a small area of mine. Good place to chill out, lol. View attachment 433702

I'm not grabbing Gene's tongue to chug anything!

 

[PiggySmallz]

Ive got a 2x2 Kallax bookcase from Ikea with the pullout bins for strings, parts, cables, and pickups

By my computer I have an 8u rolling metal rack with my power supply/UPS and a 3u drawer to hold my XLR cables, tools, and cleaning supplies

For my amps, I built 3 cabinets to hold 5 heads and a 6u rack for my power supply, switcher, fx and room to add a bit more

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

You guys need a dang man cave. This is a small area of mine. Good place to chill out, lol.

I have one, but it's a freaking mess. I'm at the point where I think I actually need less stuff.

 

[7704A]

This guy: https://www.acehardware.com/departm...ing-and-shelving-units/shelving-units/5040637

I have a bunch of books, amp projects, parts, equipment, parts drawers, etc. piled on it and it's doing fine. Haven't anchored it to the wall yet, though probably should (it comes with anchor brackets, but no fasteners). Feels sturdy and well-built, is easy to put together, and it advertises each individual shelf as being able to hold 250lbs. I tested that by hopping on it myself (at around 200lb) when it was half-built, and it held.

 

[roodboy]

timely thread
was shopping for shelving units for gear at costco today

 

[stratjacket]

I have an Ikea storage with 12 drawers. It has a lot of room in each drawer and it's full of shit, parts, tools, guitar strings, etc...

For pedals, cheap Amazon wall shelves.

For cables, I bought cheap shoe racks that hang up in a closet, perfect little slots for keeping cables separated and big enough not to crimp the cable when I roll it up.
Power adaptors rest on the closet floor

I picked up some small drawers to keep pickups organized. I keep humbuckers in the wooden drawers and single coils and pickguards in the Ikea 12 box storage.

 

[rottingcorpse]

I keep gear at two different houses in two different states, and the bulk of my gear is in a climate controlled storage unit I pay way too much for.

 

[LPMojoGL]

I've been feeling "cluttered" with too much gear for a while, myself.
Current state of things...
Music Room:

Another shelf in my "guest bedroom", for the majority of cables, pedals, tubes, strings, tools n such. Bed covered with a quilt made from some of my concert tees.

I rotate any of those amps, cabs n guitars into the dining room, where I keep a separate pedalboard, when a few friends come over to make noise.

Taking these photos makes me realize what a sad state I've let my house slip into. Bachelor life is tough.

 

[CoreyW]

It’s cool seeing other people’s set up.

I started using old wall mount coat hangers for cable storage a long time ago makes what cables I use a lot east to grab and keeps them up and out of the way.

 

[Eazy-ESP]

I've been feeling "cluttered" with too much gear for a while, myself.
Current state of things...
Music Room:
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Another shelf in my "guest bedroom", for the majority of cables, pedals, tubes, strings, tools n such. Bed covered with a quilt made from some of my concert tees.
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I rotate any of those amps, cabs n guitars into the dining room, where I keep a separate pedalboard, when a few friends come over to make noise.
View attachment 433742Taking these photos makes me realize what a sad state I've let my house slip into. Bachelor life is tough.

Fantastic mirror.

 

[Eazy-ESP]

Everyone seems to have WAY more cables than I do.

 

[CoreyW]

The clutter I am wanting to clean up are the two shelves to the left of the desk.

I am in the market for a new desk but I will probably end up just building one, I don’t want to drop 3 grand on just a desk.

 

[NinjaRaf]

I don't really keep anything that isn't getting used regularly. I guess the exception would be my microphones that mainly get used on drums. I just have a bag that sits on a shelf with them. Not too much space, so can't be keeping shit around that isn't useful.

 

[70 Mach 1]

I only have 12 pedals. I found a foam padded case at HF. I think it may even be a gun case.
Fits everything securely with room for a few more.
I took the foam off the top so they sit snug