Supplying Power to a Post-Production Home Studio

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi. I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village and I'm going to be talking to you about power sources, another element of your home office that could easily be overlooked. Most rooms, home offices, in someone's house, apartment or condo is only going to have one or two power supplies just built into the walls. You want to make sure that you go out and purchase an adequate number of power strips as well as surge protectors. You don't want to be overloading your sockets, starting a fire or blacking-out the entire floor of your building because you put six different appliances into two different plugs. Also, it's important that when you're setting up your power supplies you want to know where all of your equipment is going to be so that you're not investing a lot of extra money wasting it on power cords, extension cords, things of that nature. Also, you want to make sure that certain appliances, certain pieces of hardware--they're always going to be in one spot like your monitors, like your tower and any external monitors, that they go on to the same power strip. A big problem you'll find when you're putting together your home studio for the first time, beginner's mistake, is to just plug anything into any socket wherever it goes. Quickly that'll lead to a bird's nest of wires where you can't find anything if you have to unplug one thing. That can be time consuming and become very irritating very quickly."