I’m willing to spend around 1000-2000. I wanna start a small record studio. Therefore I would be looking at the best equipment for the money that I have
With that budget, you will be very limited with what you can do. If you’re looking to record full bands with drums and all, your mixer/interface (where the mic cables plug into) will cost $600-1000 by itself. Example- Presonus Firestudio $699
If cost is your main focus I suggest a hard disk multi-track recorder. An example is the Tascam 2488MKII ($899). It’s your computer, 24 track mixer, effects, and cd burner all in one. Drawbacks are that it’s quality is severely lower than computer recording. Editing is not user friendly, as you are working with a 4 inch LCD display. And it can only take 8 inputs at one time, so you can’t record whole bands simultaneously and have good quality.
If planning to record bands or other artists you will need amplified reference monitors. Not computer or home theater speakers. Look to spend $200 each. If for personal use, a good pair of headphones will do ($35)
1 phantom powered vocal mic ($150) 3-4 instrument mics($85 each) 4-5 mic stands($50each) drum mics are optional and you would be looking to spend about $300 for a 7 piece set
With all these you will have a bare-minimum recording set up usefull for bands for songwriting and make practice recordings, hip-hop/rap productions, solo artists to make scratch recordings. If you’re looking to do more, consider computer recording and budget around $5,000 on equipment, not including a powerfull computer.
February 4th, 2010 at 6:27 am
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February 4th, 2010 at 6:41 am
I just use a firewire interface with monitors. It depends on how much you want to spend.
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February 4th, 2010 at 7:01 am
With that budget, you will be very limited with what you can do. If you’re looking to record full bands with drums and all, your mixer/interface (where the mic cables plug into) will cost $600-1000 by itself. Example- Presonus Firestudio $699
If cost is your main focus I suggest a hard disk multi-track recorder. An example is the Tascam 2488MKII ($899). It’s your computer, 24 track mixer, effects, and cd burner all in one. Drawbacks are that it’s quality is severely lower than computer recording. Editing is not user friendly, as you are working with a 4 inch LCD display. And it can only take 8 inputs at one time, so you can’t record whole bands simultaneously and have good quality.
If planning to record bands or other artists you will need amplified reference monitors. Not computer or home theater speakers. Look to spend $200 each. If for personal use, a good pair of headphones will do ($35)
1 phantom powered vocal mic ($150) 3-4 instrument mics($85 each) 4-5 mic stands($50each) drum mics are optional and you would be looking to spend about $300 for a 7 piece set
With all these you will have a bare-minimum recording set up usefull for bands for songwriting and make practice recordings, hip-hop/rap productions, solo artists to make scratch recordings. If you’re looking to do more, consider computer recording and budget around $5,000 on equipment, not including a powerfull computer.
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