Starting up a Recording Studio

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Member Since: Feb 25, 2009

Hi,
I am brand new to this business as anyone can be.
I want to produce hip hop material.
I am already very good at producing beats and background music in Fruity Loops and have several beats ready.
I want to start recording in my room.
I just want to know what equipment to buy, importantly microphone and recorder, and how I should start off.
I'm also on an extremely tight budget.
So I want to get the most bang for the buck.

If there is a guide or another forum post, to this, I would also appreciate if you could link me.

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Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004


Feb 26, 2009 10:11 am

That's quite a bag of questions, to which it's almost impossible to give a usable answer.

microphones: dynamic, condensor, ribbon

100 - 5000$

preamps: cheesy, small, and rough performance, up to high end stuff

30$ - 5000$

recorders: standalone, tape =), handheld, computer (mac, PC), PC w/ Hardware (PT), etc.

300$ - (you don't wanna know)

programs for recording: various,

free - 2000$ (approx)

plugins: various

free - 1000s $ (various)

treatment for room: none (boxy, nodes, etc) to lots: better but still iffy.

free - 1000s $ (various)

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So you see, there's lots of variables that will affect these things directly, and i'm not about to list off every iteration of possibilities.

I guess if you find a budget first, some parts can be identified.

cheap: 300 - 500$
fair: 500 - 1000$
pretty decent: 1000 - 2500$
Very nice: 2500+

then there's nashville professional, but I won't try to guess at what each place might have.

(of course, these are all my opinions, and could be off by a bunch).

hth, ymmv, imho, etc.

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