1000 euro studio- how would you do it?

condra

hey guys.

Just wondering how you would go about setting up a project studio within a 1000 budget.
[not that I have 1k, just curious and would like to brainstorm budget set-ups]

The example Id like to use is someone who already has a decent computer with some decent software. Say, a Powermac with Logic Pro and some good plugs. She wants to make electronic and dance music and will probably at some stage like to record some vocals, maybe a guitar, possibly a hardware synth.

How would you spend the money?
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What cant be skimpt on and what is the most essential bit of kit? What can you find good deals on second hand and what brands or products offer exceptional value for money for the budget project studio?

Monitors- Active or passive? How much of the 1000 euro should be spent on monitoring?

What about sound treatment for the room?

Mixing and interfacing- Soundcard? Analogue/Digital Mixer?, control surface?, patchbay? console? hybrid control surface interface? New or second hand?

Mics- How many to buy? What to buy? Just one good one for vocals? condenser or dynamic? New/second hand?

synth/sampler/rack gear etc- budget synth or second hand or just a midi control keyboard with softsynths? Any point buying a groove box, drum machine or sampler? What about rack gear like compressors/fx?


Thanks for your thoughts on this..

sturgo

Personally I'd spend most of the cash on a good desk a decent mic & tonns of RAM. That's the grand gone already!

eddyc

Yeah totally, I'd buy an access virus and that would be the end of it!!

But seriously, maybe an EMU soundcard I hear theyre cheap and great quality, and theres always the various m-audio soundcards, lets go for NI Kore as it is a great soundcard/softsynth/FX interface say we're down 350

Korg MicroKontrol - around 270

ok 380 left

Mic - One good condeser mic, say I donno MXL 990 @ 100

Decent Headphones 100, Behringer's a good make ok another 100

180,


Behringer BCF2000 MIDI Controller with Faders $199 ,we should be able to cover it.

So now ya got , 2 midi controllers , one for making tunes, one for mixin them,
A good soundcard, good headphones and a decent mic.

frobisher

If you have a computer and software you can get alot of options for €1000.
How important will the vocals be ( lead instrument in every song v rarely any?) what kind of instruments do intend using regulary? What, if any, gear/instruments do you already own? What are you hoping to get from the final results (to learn, to experiment, make demos, no. 1 record?!).

Alan Smith

eddyc wrote:

Yeah totally, I'd buy an access virus and that would be the end of it!!

But seriously, maybe an EMU soundcard I hear theyre cheap and great quality, and theres always the various m-audio soundcards, lets go for NI Kore as it is a great soundcard/softsynth/FX interface say we're down 350

Korg MicroKontrol - around 270

ok 380 left

Mic - One good condeser mic, say I donno MXL 990 @ 100

Decent Headphones 100, Behringer's a good make ok another 100

180,


Behringer BCF2000 MIDI Controller with Faders $199 ,we should be able to cover it.

So now ya got , 2 midi controllers , one for making tunes, one for mixin them,
A good soundcard, good headphones and a decent mic.

Bcd 2000:p
I like it actually what Im using but the only downside to it is the software The filters on the software are crap.

zero19

1k wouldnt even get you logic pro!

condra

1k wouldnt even get you logic pro!

the original question presumed one had already invested in a decent computer and software.

TelePaul

I wouldn't consider treating the room if you're doing dance music. Vocal booths can be improvised, and you could consider aocustic guitar treatment further on up the road.