We will see the basic Home Studio Equipment Setup, both hardware and software, if you want to know how to make better recordings from your own home, stay and let’s see it.
This is my basic Home Studio Equipment Setup, but this has some problems, since if you want to use studio monitors to listen, you also need to do an acoustic treatment of the room where you have your Home Studio, otherwise the sound that comes out of the monitors can deceive you, also such small rooms will never give a perfect result even if you treat them acoustically, so in this video I am going to recommend something more basic to start with and in future videos we will be doing a little acoustic treatment in this room so small to sound its best, both for recording and mixing.
List about the basic configuration of the Home Studio equipment Setup
- Ok, what kind of computer do I need for my Ukulele Home Studio?
- An audio interface?
- What headphones can I use?
- Studio microphones
- More hardware?
- Recording software (DAW)
The Computer, the brain in our Home Studio Equipment Setup
Is one of the most important parts of our configuration and we can start with an old one, in this case it is an old laptop about seven years old that is not very powerful but to begin with it will serve us if it supports recordings of a few tracks and their effects, which is what we need right now.
One important thing in this type of computer is that it has a solid state hard drive or SSD so that it works better.
Audio Interface
The audio interface is the hardware that will allow us to connect our instruments to the computer, there are different brands and prices, but don’t go crazy to decide, all the interfaces in the basic range are very similar, I’ve had Behringer, Focusrite and I currently have an SSL 2, which is the one I liked the most, even so, you decide on the one that catches your attention from the beginning and fits your budget, there will be time to improve our equipment. In the description I will leave you some links to different interfaces for you to look at.
Studio Headphones
We are going to use special studio headphones, these headphones must be semi-open, firstly so as not to tire our ears since we are going to spend a lot of time with them and they must also let some air out so that it seems that we are in a room, so that create an atmosphere, etc. There are also many prices and brands, don’t take too long to select one, to start mixing any of the cheap ones will do, mine is an AKG 240 mkII, I’ll also leave you the link in the description. To record you need closed headphones, it does not matter if they are the cheapest, it is very important that the sound of what you are recording or the metronome does not come out too much, since all this will be captured by our microphones.
Microphones
You can go crazy trying to decide on the best microphones for recording ukulele, there are millions of brands, models and prices, the most common are dynamic and condenser, in my opinion we can start with three, one large diaphragm condenser, another small diaphragm condenser and a dynamic one, the dynamic microphone will work much better in a room where there is a lot of ambient noise since condenser microphones are very good because they capture very good sound from the instruments but they also capture much more ambient noise.
MIDI Keyboard
There are a couple of other elements that, although they are not necessary, we could incorporate into our Home Studio. The first is a MIDI keyboard with which we can add virtual instruments such as pianos, strings, wind instruments, percussion, etc., if we cannot have a group of musicians who can record their instruments for us, a MIDI keyboard would come in handy if we want to add a special touch to our recordings. As there are always many prices and brands, don’t spend a lot of time looking either, any one is worth it.
Heaphone extender
The second is a headphone extender, this can be very helpful when we go to record another person and our interface only has a single headphone output or if the fans of our computer make a lot of noise and we want to get as far away as possible to the microphone doesn’t pick it up.
Reaper DAW
I have it very clear here, the software that I use is Reaper DAW and it is the one that I am going to be working with in these videos, at first glance its interface is not very elaborate, but that comes in handy because it consumes very few resources. It is a very powerful software that in addition to being able to use its native plugins, we can download many other external free ones but specific to Reaper that work very well and their consumption for our old computers is very low, in another video we will see how to install Reaper and the extra plugins and leave it ready to record and mix our Ukuleles.
Here you have the basic Home Studio Equipment Setup
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