I wanna build a small studio in my home, to record mainly just guitar and vocals. What would you recommend package wise? I have around 900 dollars to spend. What do I need computer wise? Mic wise? and where can i learn more about mixers and such. If you guys can help me out I'll appreciate it more than anything. Thanks
Hmm... what exactly do you want... and are you recording electric or acoustic or both? Put a lot of money into nice mics and an M-Audio Audiophile soundcard is the best for the money. Cool Edit Pro is the best editing software I've tried.
you should get a mixer behringers are my favorite you porbly want a un powerd mixer, get a condencer mic those are better for recording
Diaphragm condensors... if you went for a an SM-57, it wouldn't be so hot, though. They're good for instrument and cab mic-ing, imo. I'd go for Mackie if you can afford one of their mixers.
You don't need to have it liquid cooled, but you can use a silent fan. My easy way is just using a desk that I can put my my tower into. I use lotsa eggcrate.
ha, my home studio is me and my guitar, with the computer mic set in front of me, and 'total recorder'. that's all. my recordings aren't great, but they do for now. not too bad demo quality.
For starters, get an m-audio soundcard. For a microphone, get the best you can with whatever money you’ve got left over, but more than likely a good condenser is going to be the way to go. However, if you’re really wanting to scrape by with a cheap microphone, I’d go with a Marshall MXL 2001-P; it’s about $150 now and you can get some great results out of it. As far as a mixer, why do you want one? Unless you’re going to be buying several mic’s and recording drums or a whole band at once, there’s no need to get one. If you’re just wanting it for the built in pre-amp; get a stand alone pre-amp and save yourself a bunch of money. As far as software; I’d get Soundforge over Cooledit for several reasons, the main one being the use of high-end mastering plugins. You might not be familiar with them but as soon as you start getting serious with recording; they’re awesome.
mixers arnt a wast of money i bought a 8 channel behringer for like 60$ i have two mics, in it you can buy a 4 channel for like 30$ it definaly worth the money
the audiophile has 4 inputs already and software can do everything (and more) than a mixer can, with higher quality results. that's definitely not saying that a mixer isn't worth the money; mixers are nice to use, but if you're on a budget; that money can be spent on other items more effectively, imo. If it were me, and I was getting a mixer; I'd be getting the Yamaha 01x; but what I do is a little more complicated than just recording guitar and vox.
i started with just a pod xt and cubase. saved a little cash and got an ardvark sound card, triton le, a few sm-57's and a pretty cheap condenser mic for vocals. i'm still building but the sounds are pretty good.
First thing that sprung to mind was like a 4 track recorder or something rather than a computer set up. Use a Fostex FD-4 and that works great. I use an adapter lead to plug it into the compy and then I use Goldwave (you can get it from www.download.com) to record it onto the compy. I save it as a high quality WAV file and then convert it to mp3 using MusicMatch Jukebox (also from download.com). Blessings Sebbi
