Ed Shway

A laptop and one external monitor can fill a small desk faster than their screen sizes suggest. The...

You can raise two monitors and a keyboard without replacing the desk beneath them. A desktop converter sits...

A subwoofer can reveal low-frequency mistakes that small desk monitors miss. It can also make an untreated editing...

Speakers on a desk can transmit vibration into the surface beneath them. A foam pad provides a separate...

A screenless drawing tablet gives an artist pen control while the artwork stays on the laptop display. Wireless...

A laptop can supply music or presentation audio, but its own speakers rarely reach a room of people...

A laptop can hold the music library, but mixing with a trackpad is awkward when you need to...

Finger drumming feels different when a pad is large and responsive enough to play repeatedly. A laptop keyboard...

A compact MIDI keyboard gives a laptop producer physical keys without claiming the whole desk. The tradeoff is...

Small studio parts disappear quickly. A spare XLR adapter, mic clip, battery or short cable gets put somewhere...