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Whether modifying a simple space to lay down some presentable demos or building a semi-professional production space, there are several established designs and methods for constructing a comfortable and practical home recording space, even without John Lennon’s budget.Īudio recording and music production is an exciting, creative, and rewarding activity. Musical instruments, audio effects, track arrangement, mixing, mastering, and dozens more stuff can now all be managed in your computer and music production software. The freedom to work in your own space, avoiding studio rental costs and restrictive timetables is appealing to most artists, from singer-songwriters to DJs. John Lennon’s home studio was considered integral to his success in recording Imagine, an album that reached Number One worldwide. Many daunting questions that will take a closer look and answer today.

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How to build a home recording studio on a budget? What are the essential tools for your setup? How to connect your studio equipment and how much is going to cost you. I was just time constrained so I paid and paid dearly! There are lots of threads on building bass traps and absorbers yourself, just Google around for them.We have gone from the age when a home recording studio setup would cost as much as your house, to the time where you can afford one, with the minimum wage. It will never will be perfect, but there is a pretty good sweet spot in here now, and it's right where I sit to mix! BTW, you can cut that room treatment cost WAY down and next to nothing if you build the bass traps and absorbers yourself. (I kept the bamboo floors live, so it's not completely dead).

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I've spent over $3,000 in pro room treatment for my 12x11 cube of a home studio (Yikes it's a cube!) There are 19, yes nineteen bass traps, absorbers, and clouds in my "cube". From 200 Hz on down home studios are usually a nightmare, so don't overlook that expense of setting up a room's treatment-it will save you pulling your hair out in the long run as you take your music to other venues. REW will tell you a lot in terms of what you are going to have to do to get that room sounding good.

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(BTW, you'll need a mic pre or interface with phantom power for the ECH 8000) The ECH 8000 is not all that expensive and there are calibration files you can download to use with it in REQ Wizard that make it more accurate.

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Also, I suggest you download a shareware supported copy of room analyzing software called "Room EQ Wizard" (REW) from here > then get yourself a $60 Behringer ECH 8000 omni reference RTA microphone and have a look at the waterfall and EQ curves in your studio. IMHO the most important thing going is room treatment, and it's often not even mentioned much (like in this thread). Pretty good advice above, except I'd swap positions one and two.

In the studio, you might use a hardware compressor/limiter on a mic/instrument input to tame the analog levels before digitizing, or you might use a hardware reverb to process the signal into a singer's headphones (even if you're recording dry). Of course, guitar & keyboard players often have their own effects boxes. With a hardware processor, there is much less chance of fouling-up a setting, and you don't have to worry about latency. Hardware effects processors are most often used for live performance. When I think about effects equipment, I think about analog & real-time processing. (There are exceptions and there are external all-digital DSP processors, etc.) You don't want to wait while it plays/processes through an analog processor in real-time. If your doing something like adding reverb to a track, you want to blast-through the process digitally. When you're mixing/editing, you generally don't want to process through an external box, especially an analog box. When I think about plug-ins, I think about mixing, DAWs, and digital files. A lot of that rack equipment is used for analog input, and analog output. Depending on what you're doing in your studio, you the only hardware you might need is a pair of powered monitors! (In addition to your computer/soundcards/interfaces.) But, if you're recording "live" (with microphones) you're going to need more hardware.