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video 2 of my recording studio project, most of the framing is done now! Next comes the electrical muuaahhaahhaahhh!

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I’m interested in building a home recording studio to record some local high school bands that are always looking to record new songs and demos. I need help with knowing the equipment I would need and maybe suggestions of specific products? My budget is around $1,100 give or take a couple hundred. And I already have a mac I can use for recording. Any suggestions would be a lot of help. Thanks.

Needs:
1) Audio Inteface
What really matters here is how many inputs do you need.
2) Mics
1 or 2 LDC’s (condenser), 2 or 3 dynamics.
Drums needs 3+ mics usually.
3) Accesories:
Pop filter, cables (xlr, 1/4, etc), mic stands.
4) Headphones
Sennheiser HD280 are amazing.
5) Monitors
KRK Rokits are good for the price.
6) DAW
GarageBand, Logic, Cockos Reaper, Pro Tools, etc.

If you have specific questions about equipment feel free to send me an email.

The fifth in a series of videos that will follow Mark with Oakhill Lane through the process of building a home recording studio.

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If you’re looking to record vocals and instruments, to begin you’ll need mics, recording software or hardware, headphones and/or speakers, and optionally a mixer.

You’ll also need to treat the room you’ll be using as a studio in order to reduce sound reflections from making your recordings sound like they were done in a bedroom. For this, you can spend a lot of money on professional acoustic treatments, but you may have good luck with some well-placed sofa cushions, blankets and other large, heavy, fluffy things.

If you’re just going to be creating music inside the computer (not recording, but generating music synthetically), you’ll just need the right software and a good set of headphones and/or powered speakers.

Head to your local music store and check some things out. You can get started recording at home for less than $1000, and even lower than that if you already have some items to begin with.

What sorts of things are you hoping to do in your studio?

Best quality of everything

1000+ or try to buy some of your equipment at a pawnshop or on Craigslist.that will save you money

For Christmas my father and I are setting up a recording studio, here’s what we will have in it:
M – audio fast track ultra with ProTools 9 ME
M- audio axiom pro 49 MIDI controller
Blue Spark Condenser Mic
KRK Rokit 8 studio speakers
PC: Custom built for recording.
This is what is all going into our starter recording studio, if there is anything else we should add please feel free to say so!

You are really all set – there are obviously other things you can get but why bother at this point – you have plenty to get started.

I have a casio and will be buying a computer this weekend. What is the next equipment i need to purchase to start making a recording studio?( I have no idea what i need, not even the basic) Also, I have seen a lot of you tube videos, Are Apple computers the best for producing/recording beats?

What you need is called a USB interface. It has connections for the keyboard and a mic if you need it. It connects to your computer with a USB cable. It will come with recording software too.

http://www.zzounds.com/item–TASUS144MKII

M-Audio Support: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.contact&cmpid=DD-SM-PTE13

If you havent already, launch Pro Tools M-Powered Essential. You have several options here on the Quick Start screen. The Session Templates are great because they include preloaded tracks, instruments and effects for the selected musical style. Lets get started and select the Rock Guitar Template.

You can rename your session, as well as change the location to save the file . . . Click Save, and Pro Tools will load your new session.

Lets take a quick look at a Pro Tools session. There are 2 main Windows in Pro Tools, the Mix window . . ., and the Edit window. You can use the Keyboard Short Cut Ctrl + Equal (or Cmd + Equal on Mac) to toggle between the mix and edit windows.

Every track in the Edit Window has a corresponding channel in the Mix Window.

In the mix window you have a volume fader; solo, mute, and record enable buttons; and above that, pan control.

At the top of the window you have inserts and sends. Inserts are where you insert effects and signal processors. Here is the SansAmp pre-amp plug-in inserted on a guitar track.

When you want to add the same effect to multiple tracks, like Reverb for example, you use the Sends and return tracks. Here you can see that Send A is setup for Reverb. On the Reverb Return track is the D-Verb Reverb plug-in. The Sends allow you to send a tracks audio signal to be processed. The more you send the, more effect you will hear.

Lets switch to the Edit Window by pressing Ctrl + = (or Cmd + = on Mac). The transport controls appear at the top of the Edit Window. To the left is the counter which shows bars and beats, and can also display minutes and seconds. Next to that are your editing tools, and all of the tracks appear along the left side.

Click the small triangle on the far right to show the zoom controls. Im going to click to zoom out so I can see more of the timeline. You can also click and drag to zoom. Lets also go to the Options Menu and make sure loop playback and dynamic transport are disabled (or unchecked).

In the next video were going to start building our song by bringing in one of the Pro Tools Essential Loops.

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How to make your own cheap home recording mini-studio and what vst to use

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I’m currently building a home recording studio as a Hip Hop and Rap artist,
but want to produce, engineer and mix my own tracks.
So I Have been purchasing the equipment to build my home studio.
At the moment I own both a laptop and a desktop however I don’t know which one to use for the studio because of the processing and RAM memory and such with the softwares being took into consideration.

The Laptop is an Dell Inspiron 1545 with windows vista home premium …
the processor is: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz 2.16GHz
The RAM is maxed out at 4GB’s (which should be enough)
and its a 64-bit operating system

However The Desktop computer that I just got from a Friend Runs

Windows XP Professional
Version 2002 Service Pack 2
System info : Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz
1.50 GHz, 1GB of RAM (Maxed out)

Now I’ve been told that windows vista is going to be a problem for audio recording.
And been recommended to get a desktop which I took action upon doing but I have just
learned that 1GB is not going to be enough of Ram and its already maxed out now what?
Should I use my laptop for the purpose and just make the desktop a personal computer?
What should I do? Any suggestions?
I have taken the laptop and tried to get XP on it before n They told me it couldn’t be done because it wasn’t gone be compatible with the rest of the laptops hardware.

If you have the xp license, use xp in the laptop and use it. The desktop is indeed a bit weak.