Creating a Budget Home Recording Studio
I’m in the planning stages of putting together a home recording studio for capturing the musical ideas that no one else wants to hear. In high school I spent my junior year at the Minnesota Center for Arts Education (I spent my senior year preparing to have my first child but that’s another story for another time) – while at MCAE I had the opportunity to spend my afternoons (and many many nights) in a very nice production studio. Many many thousands of dollars of gear – much of which you couldn’t give away today. The point being that I’m familiar with what a high-end home studio would have looked like 15 years ago – unfortunately that knowledge does not do me a whole lot of good.
What I have
- A 6’x10’ space to work with.
- A laptop computer (Acer Extensa 5620Z – jealous much?)
- $1000 (my wife may disagree with this assertion but she is out of town)
What I want
- To be able to capture my guitars (electric and acoustic) and vocals
- A MIDI input keyboard
- Gear that is not crap and can grow into better things
Something like this
That’s one hell of an expensive question mark.
So over the next few posts (or weeks … who knows) I’ll be going over what I’m thinking about, what I decide, and why I changed my mind just minutes after making a decision after days of thinking.
Tags: homestudio, music