Saturday, October 12, 2013
Why You Should Buy No New Gear and Build Nothing For Your 1st Home Recording Studio!
I apprehend the screams already..."how can I GET a home recording flat if I buy not accessory and body nothing?" My answer: "because allowance are acceptable that you've already GOT a home recording flat and didn't apperceive it."
I've been advancement the abstraction of accepting humans into recording who accept absolute little money or experience, and who anticipation it was absurd to accomplish appropriate audio recordings unless you "built" an big-ticket home flat or paid through the adenoids at a bartering recording studio. The absolute entry-level amount to alpha your home audio recording studio? - - Wait for it.......$0.00 (for anyone with a computer, complete card, and PC microphone). Add some accessible antecedent audio software (download "Audacity") to the mix and voila! Behold your recording studio. The audio superior isn't agitating at this level, admitting you'll be afraid at what CAN be done. Audio produced from the absolute everyman account akin can be acceptable abundant for a lot of things, and is CERTAINLY acceptable abundant to apprentice and hone your chops. As you accretion ability and experience, you can slowly, incrementally advancement your start-up to crop bigger superior and added capability.
When I say "incrementally," I'm talking amid $25 and $50 for a lot of advancement "cycles." And some of those accomplish represent a breakthrough bound in audio quality. Chances are top that you will acquisition your level, the gear/software/knowledge aggregate that apparel your audio needs, able-bodied afore you end up paying for "high-end" gear. So I anticipate it is a huge accumulation for new association to go this route, because admitting what some experts (especially sales folks) will acquaint you, it is added than accessible ("probable," actually) that big-ticket accessory in the easily of a newbie will crop poor audio. Why? Mainly because association buy in to the abstraction that "better accessory consistently leads to bigger audio." Oh no. Sooooo "no."
The acceptable account is that there isn't a ton of ability appropriate to clasp the a lot of superior out of the atomic gear. And already you accept that ability you'll end up spending FAR beneath money in the continued run because you'll apperceive WHY you charge that next section of gear, and you'll be beneath acceptable to buy "too abundant car" for your needs.
So is it accessible to win a Grammy application a boilerplate PC, bargain PC mic, and open-source audio software? Hey, annihilation is possible. I wouldn't bet on it, but you apperceive what's crazy? I accept you can get into the branch of "audio acceptable abundant for a Grammy" for bags of dollars beneath than a lot of humans think. It's like we consistently say at Home Brew Audio: "When all abroad is equal, ability trumps accessory every time."
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