Essential gear to get your home recording studio
When you buy a new car or purchase a new smart phone, it is always the initial costs that get most of the attention while the hidden costs are overlooked until they show themselves. That car will eventually need oil changes, and new tires – how much is that going to cost? Likewise, that smart phone will need some kind of travel case, perhaps a headset, and maybe even a suction cup mount so that it can be used in the car. These little costs are the bane of any shopper, as they are hard to predict and eliminate during the purchase. Recording artists and producers have their own little accessories that can break the bank. Mainly it comes down to cables. Serious professionals won’t risk using cheap RCA cables; they will go with quarter inch cables and balanced cables. Speakers need XLR cable, which isn’t cheap in great lengths, and microphone cable isn’t cheap either. The microphones themselves can be costly, especially when multiple mics are needed to produce a good recording. The standard drum set might need up to ten separate microphones to record each piece of the drum set properly. After all of this, the cost of the DAW might be the cheapest part of the kit. http://blog.discmakers.com/2012/05/essential-gear-to-get-your-home-recording-studio-off-the-ground/