| Having a home recording studio setup is hard to find a | | | | entry level studio we are going to go with the basics. |
| starting place. You can spend thousands of dollars of | | | | This is what I would recommend you have. |
| your money before you ever hit record. You make | | | | Digital recorder |
| your first demo and never touch your setup again. | | | | Mics (at least 2) |
| When taking on this project you will have to ask some | | | | Drum machine |
| questions. fist am I really going to like this? Meaning are | | | | Digital effects processor (such as digitech, line6, boss |
| you going to gut your basement and build a full on | | | | something like that) |
| recording studio? Doing this can be fun and rewarding | | | | The really great thing is digital products have come |
| monetarily if done right. Meaning if you build a huge | | | | down so much over the past few years we can set |
| studio in your basement with sound proof walls, control | | | | this up under $400.00 if not less. There are great digital |
| room, a monster board and so on you can rent out | | | | records on the market now for $150.00 and up. |
| studio time to local bands. Not to long ago a friend tried | | | | Products like fostex, tascam, boss and zoom these |
| this will some success. However the out of pocket | | | | are just to name a few. Here is the kicker many of |
| cash was pretty large and I am not 100% sure there | | | | these digital records come with a dc burner and drum |
| has been a full recoup. | | | | machine build in. this explains why I say to not rush. |
| The other method is the slow and steady approach to | | | | Now the mics I would not spend a lot of money on a |
| building a home recording studio setup. What I mean by | | | | mic to start out. Yes it can make a difference on the |
| this is do not put yourself into financial peril by creating | | | | recording but to start go cheap you can always find a |
| this places. What do I mean by this? Well start out | | | | min on sale for very cheap online or at your local |
| slow. Ask yourself why am I considering making this? | | | | music story. |
| What am I going to do with this once setup? Do I really | | | | Ok to wrap this up I am going to tell you how I setup |
| need this? These are important things you need to ask | | | | my studio with mics digital 8 track with drum machine |
| yourself. | | | | and cd burner build in and guitar effects and I added a |
| When I started doing home recording I went through | | | | drum machine just for good measure for just under |
| the same sort of thoughts you are going through. Do I | | | | $300.00. EBAY! I am not knocking online music stores |
| really want to clean out my saving account to do this? | | | | and online stores they have great stuff and good |
| You may be shocked much you don't have to spend | | | | deals. But I was not sure how much I wanted to do |
| to get a good setup. Do not rush into anything. | | | | and how much I was going to use this studio. As it |
| Number one thing scout out a location for you stuff. If | | | | turns out a lot and still don't need an upgrade. Basically |
| you can a place where you will not have to keep | | | | all I did was put this small list together and just kept |
| building and tearing down your equipment. I am not | | | | adding on. I would keep looking and looking and when I |
| talking about gutting a room or basement just a decent | | | | saw what I wanted for the price I wanted it for I would |
| location to setup and have some relative quite. Before I | | | | use the buy it now for the price they were asking on |
| go to much further this is going to be a setup where | | | | eBay. Making bids never works out for me somehow I |
| you can make some basic recording of you and or | | | | always loose. The one exception being the mic I got |
| your band so we are not going to be doing an over | | | | them on clearance. My recommendation is to go with |
| the top setup. | | | | this method first. Build your studio slowly and make |
| Ok so you have your place now comes the fun part | | | | sure it is really something you are going to use rather |
| the equipment. What will you need? Where do you | | | | than spending a lot of time and money only to find out |
| start? And how do you get it? For your let's call it an | | | | you don't want to do this. |