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How much is a home recording studio?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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The real question is how much are you willing to spend? With a computer, you can purchase a USB mic and download a copy of audacity recording software and start recording for only the price of the mic which can be as low as $60 or less. This will get you started recording, but the quality will more than likely be fairly poor. With recording gear, buying whatever is cheap isn't always the best idea. The electronics used in higher priced gear are usually better and the materials will hold up better over time. This doesn't mean you can't find good quality cheap merchandise, but its hard. Be sure to read as many reviews as possible, especially if you are new to recording.

A better way to get a recording set-up that still can be fairly cheap is purchasing an audio interface for your computer. This will allow you to connect instruments and mics to your computer via USB or firewire. These also usually contain software for your recording as well. You can find a small cheap interface for around $100 I think. I'm pretty sure I saw one at Best Buy for around that price. The sizes and types will vary quite a bit. I personally use the MBox 2 Mini from Digidesign. I'm not the biggest fan of the company and all of that but it's always worked well for me. It contains an XLR input and two 1/4" inputs as well as coming with ProTools LE. I bought it for $250 or something. The quality is good, and having ProTools is highly important to me because of how many other studios run it. If you are recording a large project like a full band you will need to make sure you purchase an interface that has enough inputs for everything you need. Also, if you use MIDI, make sure it has MIDI connectivity.

If you don't want to use your computer, and have a little more money to work with you can go with a mixer. This way you will feed everything to your mixer and mix the sounds with that. However, you will still need a way to record the output of the mixer. They do make mixers that have hard drives and CD burners inside. Those are usually pretty expensive though. I believe they are closer to $600 or so. You could get a small two channel interface and record the output onto your computer, but you will only have track control of the stereo output for the entire song, rather than for each track. If you can get a good mix with the mixer, then this isn't much of a problem but if you are wanting to compress the vocals a little more or add some reverb you will run into problems. You can also get a tape machine, or ADAT to record off of the mixer, but those will run you quite a bit.

Once you've made the decision of how to record, you will need mics, processing, monitors, cables, stands, and other things like that. You may also need some soundproofing done to your home to get better quality.

I suggest doing a lot of research on the principles of sound and how everything in the studio works. This will help you better decide how you want to set everything up and with what.

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