How to Build a Budget Studio   

This is the cheapest computer-based rig that sounds decent!

Welcome to SoundCravers Lab! SoundCravers Lab has the following resources to get you started building your recording studio.

In the Guide, Tweak takes you through classes that cover all the basic of putting together a home studio.  You'll see what components are needed or the simple mixerless studio to advanced multi-track recording rigs for large bands.  You can see the gear that is used in many popular studio rigs that people use today to produce music at home. 

The guide will take you through classes on Which Soundcard or Audio Interface, help you pick out a keyboard or MIDI module and covers microphones, mixers, compressors, effects, sequencers, software synths, samplers, plugins and mastering processors.

Components of a Budget Studio

Here's the cheapest studio I would attempt to record with.  To be sure, you can find cheaper mics and a cheaper audio interface, but they sacrifice on sound.

Here's a simply flow chart of how pieces connect in a basic mixerless home studio.  This type of studio is the simplest and the cheapest, and it relies on the power of your computer for recording and playback. 

Here's some products that will get you going at decent quality, but as cheap as possible.  Note that you get software bundled in with the Tascam, a budget version of a well known sequencer.

Some of the advantages:  As of this writing The M-audio Key Rig comes with Ableton Live Lite.  TheTascam comes with Cubase LE.  Both of these are really pretty good software packages to get started on.  Naturally, there are other ways to do this.  I suggest you check out Tweak's Guide for detailed info on every one of these components.

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