Top 10 Things in Building Your Home Recording Studio

Do you plan to start your own simple and basic home recording studio? Nowadays, home recording studios are part of being a musician. Musicians today constructs their own studio and in their every household has a basic home recording studio. You have to choose your specific time of recording unlike going to studios where you have to travel, record and wait for it to be mastered. It is really convenient for us musicians to build our own home recording studio.

How to get started?

1. Room

- Well of course, we need a space to stock our recording equipment. The place should be not that slick or open but just make sure that it is sound proof that no sound can enter or go out the room.

2. Sound Insulators

- Having a sound insulators installed on your studio eliminates echoes and this will make your mic recordings good whether it's a voice recording, guitar recording, drums, bass and anything that has to deal with microphones.

3. Personal Computer or Mac

- It doesn't matter what operating system you'll use. It could be a Windows or a Mac. The reason why you need this is that, by using this machines, you'll be able to record, process your recordings.

4. Digital Audio Workstation Software

- Your computer has no built in recording software so you need to get one for your computer or mac. For most Mac users, they are using Garage band unlike Windows users, you get to choose from different kind of softwares. Some good softwares out there are Reaper, Sony Acid, Mixcraft, Fl Studio, Ableton, Bitwig Studio, Sonar, Apple Logic Pro, Steinberg etc...

5. Recording Interface

- Well, for a basic recording studio, you don't those expensive mixers and multi channelled interfaces. You can suit using a basic recording interface which you can use on your basic home recording studio.

6. Microphones

- I will literally advice that you pick 2 different microphones. One dynamic and a condenser. There are lots of discussions upon using a dynamic and a condenser microphone but it's a different topic. For the meantime, know your taste, do some research of see our upcoming article regarding dynamic and condenser microphones. I'm suggesting that pick a usb powered microphone because a regular microphone needs phantom power which is available mostly on mixers.

7. Pop Filter

- A pop filter is literally just a filter. It filters out harsh or hard consonant sounds. There's a huge difference when you use a pop filter. There are some old recordings that doesn't use pop filter and it makes it sounds amateur, unlike with a use of pop filter, your voice recording will sound more natural and professional.

8. Headset Monitors

- Since we are trying to make a basic home recording studio, we at least need convenient items like headset monitors. If your room is simple as basic, then for sure you won't have enough room studio monitors PLUS recording a vocal tracks really needs an isolated monitor so that you'll be able to record your voice individually without backing track's noise.

Now you're all set to go!

Building a simple home recording studio will also take some time so make

sure not to rush things up so quickly! Now, the only problem is how you will be able to get create your own minus one / back track. To learn about creating your backing track, follow us and stay on track for our next article regarding "7 Steps on Creating Your Backing Track"

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