It has been asked of me by a few people, what is required to get started recording at home with decent results. So I started to put together a list of thoughts. By no means is this complete, that's why I'm putting this here. It needs completion. Please review and provide your thoughts so I can finalize this and share with others.
Starting a digital home studio checklist:
Room
Starting a digital home studio checklist:
Room
o Room Treatment (such as Auralex or Ethan Winer http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html or http://www.realtraps.com
o Dedicated Room
o Do you want separate control/tracking rooms?
Trackingo Computer
 Good horsepower latest and greatest
 Dual monitors (no CRT, they cause interference with the EMFs)
o Audio Card(s) (A/D and D/A conversion is very important, as is latency)
 Stereo/Mono recording (2 channel such as Echo MIA)
 Multiple simultaneous tracks (6+ channel ex/ acoustic drums or live performance)
o Microphone Preamps (and essential rack gear)
 M-Audio DMP3
 Tampa
 Grace Design
 Avalon
 RNP

o Microphones (potentially with various patterns)
 Dynamic (Shure SM57, SM7,
)
 Condensers (AT4050, Rode,
)
 Ribbon ( Royer, Shiny Box, Nady,
)
o Sequencer (Reason, ProTools, Cubase, FL Studio, nTrack,
)
o Headphones (such as Sennheiser HD 280)
Mixingo Nearfield Monitors (M-Audio, Yamaha, Genelec,
)
o Good VST plug-ins (Waves, Kjaerhus,
)
Masteringo DIY good mastering VSTs
o Send it out for someone else to do
Instruments (if the source sounds like crap, the recording will sound like crap)o Guitars
 Electric
 Accoustic
 Bass
o Keyboards
 MIDI
 Analog
o Drums/Percussion
 VSTi
 Acoustic
o Vocals
o Misc
o Amplifiers
