It’s often known that a clean workspace encourages innovation. When you are trying to come up with work in a cluttered and messy environment, it could subconsciously slow you down. Wasting time trying to find different things, and walking over your cables is not very efficient when you’re trying to foster creativity. In order to help with this, you must start cleaning up your studio. Take out any extra things that don’t belong there, work on cable management and other thing that will be explained in this article will help you out with that.
Cleaning Up Your Room
The first thing you should do before getting into all the technical aspects of cleaning up is managing your room. This includes any sorts of carpets, curtains, chairs, desks. Dust them off and make sure you don’t have an excessive (or any) amount of dust bunnies hiding underneath your workstation. Get a mop or a duster and scrub especially the edges of the desks. Make sure to also take a look at the backside. Dust is very easily detrimental to your gear and could reduce the overall quality if not managed. Make sure the carpet is vacuumed and dust off the furniture. Make sure your computer’s peripherals are also clean. Compressed air often helps with delicate items. Making sure that no food or messy items get inside your studio in the first place is often recommended.
Managing Clutter
Now that you’re done with dusting off everything and making sure the physical environment is clean. It’s time to get into cable management and clutter management. Take a look around your studio and look at where everything is located. Do you have stacks of wires behind your studio that are causing a lot of clutter? Try to get some cable managers and some tape and make sure they’re organized. Tripping on cables is pretty annoying.
Try to also take a look at any papers you have lying around your studio. If they’re not important for daily operations or if you wont be needing them anytime soon, archive them. Have some folders that you can put all your papers in. Or better yet, try to digitize everything you have to avoid having papers lying around. If you have any instruments that are not in their cases, put them in their cases. Doing all this will allow you to move around way easier and find things easier too. This will help you avoid wasting time looking for some old papers.
Digital Organization
Alongside physical organization, it’s also helpful to organize your digital workspace, This includes folders on your PC. Make sure your desktop isn’t cluttered and your harddrive is always clean. You’ll also want to get a good antivirus to make sure nothing is slowing down your PC. Doing a drive cleanup every so often and defragmentation is essential to keeping your PC at top speed and avoid wasting time on booting up things. If you don’t already have an SSD, it will help with reducing time wastage. Archive old folders and documents and make sure that your folders are in order to know where everything is. Finally, uninstall any software that is not needed. You may have installed a lot of synths or equalizers that you arn’t using. This will help with boot times and it will increase your PCs speed in the long run.
Accessible Gear
Making sure your racks and your musical equipment are always close by when you need them is essential. Having to walk a few feet to get to different equipment is a huge waste of time in the long run. You won’t be getting things done at that rate. Having shelves and furniture to keep all your hardware close by could help with this. If you use instruments often, make sure to keep them close. Having your guitar in another room for no reason is not very efficient.
Conclusion
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t be doing all these things once in a blue moon. Make it a routine and set a day every week at least to clean things up. Always keep a lookout for any dust that makes its way into your equipment as that can often be pretty dangerous for sensitive objects. If you’re looking for more articles such as this, visit Mello Studio’s website.
