Home Recording Studio | Best Way to Build Your Studio

We are fortunate to live in a day and age where technology has brought creation to our fingertips, and I mean that literally.  For most of us, our phones are miniature recording studios with photo/video production kits and editing software built in.

While there is still a time and place for taking your best music to a state of the art professional music studio with a highly qualified producer, there is no longer a need to limit your music production to when you have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on recording at a place like Abbey Road Studios.  With a modest budget and some diligence, you can unleash your creativity on a daily basis and build a music catalog and a home studio at the same time.

Technically, you can start producing music with nothing more than a computer with adequate specs and a music DAW like Logic, Ableton, FL Studio or even GarageBand.  At the most basic level, you can start producing music with your keyboard and mousepad in anyone of these programs and more.

Of course, for most of us, with as much as we can do with just a computer and a good program, we will want to build things out quickly, even if we have to do it in stages.

Its the same as buying a quality instrument like the top rated Moog Sub Phatty synthesizer, your knowledge will take you the extra step in great production… as long as you start with quality equipment.

HEADPHONES

While you might be thinking that your built in computer speakers are good enough to get the job done, while you start buying instruments to deck out your home studio, the truth is, you are only going to be able to be a great home producer if you can hear all the details of the music you are producing.

For that you need to invest in high quality studio headphones.  Fortunately, there are quality headphones that cost as little as $100.  When it comes to headphones, I think you should always be looking to improve as you grow.  There is a huge leap from the $100 Sennheiser 280s and $3,000 Focal Utopia headphones.

If your home studio is going to be a place for hobby, you will never need a set of Focal headphones, but if you are going to be taking your home recordings and having another company press them to vinyl, you might want to have the best headphones you can afford.  Hopefully, you will be having your music professional mastered when you get to that point in your production.