{"id":1353,"date":"2014-01-13T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:30:59","slug":"home-recording-studio-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/home-recording-studio-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Key Considerations for Setting Up Your Own Home Recording Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, there&#8217;s almost no reason that you should go without having your own personal studio for rehearsing and refining your tunes. After all, the technology is readily available, and it&#8217;s reached a pretty solid price point for most musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Before you build a home recording studio, though, you&#8217;ll want to spend some time thinking about these four key considerations. They&#8217;ll help you get the sound you want at an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/22\/31207113_a0edb562ce.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>Image via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timwilson\/31207113\/sizes\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr<\/a>\u00a0by TimWilson<\/p>\n<h2><!--more-->Decide Whether You Want Digital or Analogue Equipment<\/h2>\n<p>This is probably the biggest decision for someone building a home recording studio. Everything else that you purchase or build will depend on it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of today&#8217;s recording engineers rely on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacifictranscription.com.au\/blog-olympus-digital.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital equipment<\/a>. With digital equipment, your home studio can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>store recordings on hard drives instead of magnetic tape<\/li>\n<li>alter recordings with computer software<\/li>\n<li>save money by choosing audio effects included in software instead of buying separate machines to make each effect<\/li>\n<li>easily expand to meet future recording needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though analogue equipment usually costs more to purchase and maintain, some recording artists believe that analogue offers superior sound quality.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, home recording engineers might want to focus on older analogue equipment that offers a warmer sound. In some ways, the equipment restricts what engineers can do with music and other sounds. In other ways, analogue equipment offers the opportunity to play with older technology to find surprising new sounds.<\/p>\n<p>You can combine analogue and digital technologies in a studio. Beginners, though, will want to concentrate on one until they&#8217;ve learned to use the equipment well.<\/p>\n<p>Just a note, but if you&#8217;re going digital, there are so many tools at your disposal. Your options are practically endless.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, another great option is to get automatic music composition software, like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.athtek.com\/digiband.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AthTek DigiBand.<\/a>\u00a0This type of software will automatically create music using an assortment of instruments and rhtymic patterns. The software also can use imported audio files, virtual keyboard compositions, or even humming to create improvised accompaniments that are sonically interesting and engaging to listeners.<\/p>\n<h2>Buy Microphones That Match Your Projects<\/h2>\n<p>Beginners might not recognize the differences between microphones. Visit any professional studio, though, and you&#8217;ll find that the engineers use dozens &#8212; if not hundreds &#8212; of different microphones to capture sounds in just the right ways.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a limited budget, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/music.tutsplus.com\/tutorials\/10-best-affordable-microphones-for-the-home-studio--audio-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shure SM57<\/a>\u00a0makes a great all-purpose mic for a small studio. It&#8217;s especially good for recording rock bands that use a lot of distortion.<\/p>\n<p>Those who want a cleaner sound might want to start with a Shure SM58. Even screaming into it won&#8217;t cause distortion.<\/p>\n<p>If you plan on recording a lot of vocals in your studio, then you should start with a Shure Beta 58. It&#8217;s one of the best options for less than $200.<\/p>\n<p>Find a microphone that matches the projects you expect in your studio. You might want to purchase a combination of mics. Many people, however, start with one or two microphones so they can learn how to use them properly. Then they build on that knowledge by purchasing other microphones with different features.<\/p>\n<h2>Explore Soundproofing Options<\/h2>\n<p>Your neighbors and family will likely feel that the most important feature of your home studio is the soundproofing.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Build-your-own-soundproof-studio-in-11-easy-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundproofing your home studio<\/a>\u00a0will reduce the amount of noise that bothers others (although it&#8217;s nearly impossible to build a completely soundproofed room, especially at a reasonable price). It&#8217;ll also give you greater control over how instruments and voices sound in your studio.<\/p>\n<p>A well soundproofed room will let sounds exist as they are. This lets engineers record highly accurate sounds.<\/p>\n<p>A poorly soundproofed room leaves a lot to chance. Rooms have resonate frequencies that can interfere with the recording process. If the studio or an object in the studio responds to an instruments sound, then it&#8217;ll affect the recording. Professional engineers spend thousands of dollars to prevent this.<\/p>\n<p>The right type of soundproofing will depend on your location and how much noise you expect musicians to create. Someone recording a rock band will probably need something thicker than someone recording choirs.<\/p>\n<h2>Think About How You Will Protect Your Investment<\/h2>\n<p>Once you put all of this money into your home recording studio, you need to find a way to keep it safe. People will quickly learn that you have a studio in your house. They&#8217;ll either hear the noise coming from your home, or they&#8217;ll hear about it from musicians who have recorded there.<\/p>\n<p>That means you automatically have a security issue. Getting a home security system\u00a0could prevent thieves from breaking in and stealing your collection of equipment. The price of a security system is nothing compared to the thousands of dollars that you will spend by the time you&#8217;ve finished your studio.<\/p>\n<p>What other key considerations do you think first-time home recording studio builders should think about? If you have personal experience in this area, share your knowledge to help the newbies avoid expensive problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, there&#8217;s almost no reason that you should go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-copyright-tidbits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-lP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}