When you decide you want to build a home recording studio you are embarking on a journey that will provide you with an investment that will last a lifetime. The beauty of recording your music is that even if you don’t make it to the top of the charts you can capture a time in your life that will live on forever for your future generations of family to enjoy and see a snapshot of your time on earth. If that’s not a good reason to get one I don’t know what is.
On the technical side anyway, to build your studio the very basic thing you need to begin with is a computer or laptop. You need the highest specification you can afford as Music recording studio production can push the capabilities of its potential. Ideally, keep this computer disconnected from the internet. The main reason is the loss of data from downloading something and crashing the whole thing. Also, it could simply slow it down and affect recording.
I’m assuming you’re already a competent musician but just to confirm you’ll need instruments, the most obvious being a guitar, bass, and drums. You have these so let’s build a studio. The first thing you need is a condenser microphone. This is a special studio piece of equipment, not suitable for live performance due to the sensitivity of the diaphragm which picks up the sound. Make sure you choose one with phantom power, ideally 48v. This is a small amount of electricity that passes into the microphone to enhance the clarity of the sound.
Your next piece of equipment is an audio-midi interface. This is a small box that plugs into the USB port on your computer and then you can plug in a variety of guitar and speaker cables to send the sound into your computer for recording. Make sure you can use XLR, quarter-inch jack, and MIDI cables.
Now you need to hear the sound so you need two things, get some decent headphones preferably the big ones that completely cover your ears and drown out outside noise, these will be utilized for vocals when you want to sing but not record the backing music at the same time. You also need monitor speakers. These have a higher range of frequencies than the average home stereo ones as you will be recording in high-quality definition.
At this point, a great optional item but not essential is a MIDI keyboard which is almost identical to the standard musical keyboard but can be used to not only lay down piano-type sounds but using special computer programs you can play drums via the MIDI keyboard rather than setting up a kit in the corner of your spare bedroom.
Last but not least, you need a computer music editing program. These days there are a huge number of choices, to name to get you started to take a look at Cubase and go from there. This is essentially where you send the sound from the audio interface into the computer on the program where you can mix, edit and create.
The beauty of this setup is you can fit these items in your spare bedroom at home and with a bit of searching you can pick these up even on a small budget. This is a basic home studio but it is enough to build a full song which with the help of online music sites could be the next big hit. Good luck to you.