After that one comment, inspired me to write in this blog post about home recording setup. Like I said, I don’t have much of a setup or a rig like they call it. I just have a cheap M-Audio Fast Track interface that was about $100, a couple of small piece of shit speakers, headphones, I have a Shure SM58 microphone, and of course, a few guitars.

I would like to improve my home recording setup down the road whenever I can afford it. Whenever I get a job and start working again, maybe I’ll start saving for more recording gear. However though, when you want to become a home recording musician, you don’t need to get all of these fancy and expensive equipment. You can still make a studio quality demo at home for $500 worth of home recording gear. That’s all you need for a home recording studio. You can still sound like a PRO recording on the cheap.

Sometime down the road, I would like to get better monitors (or speakers). I would like to get a MIDI keyboard so I can learn how to put band back up behind my music and all that stuff. I would like to get a better Audio interface too. My guitar sounds perfectly clean in recording but I would like to make the vocals sound better ’cause there’s a little bit of hissing noises in the background. Maybe if I get better software and a better interface, it’ll help make the vocals sound cleaner.

I used to use Pro Tools Academic to record on but it’s really old and outdated so for now I just use Cakewalk Music Creator 5. I bought Music Creator 5 cheap ’cause I needed something to record on. I was planning to use that until I find a better ProTools software to use. I will buy a new ProTools software down the road too.

You see, you don’t need to waste a lot of money at a local studio to record your albums when you can record your music on the cheap at home. It’s worth it, trust me. Cheap recording equipment is great for recording acoustic demos. You can even record a full band at home if you wanted to. I’m always trying to find ways to improve my home recording setup.

Before ProTools and computer software came around, I was just recording my music on a piece of shit Tascam 4-track machine, remember those, yeah?

I’ve been recording my songs at home for many years. I may have recorded a demo in a professional local studio once in 2006 and that’ll be the only time I’ll do that, I think. As long as you can make a decent sounding demo at home, there’s no need to record in a professional studio. I don’t really enjoy someone else recording my music when I prefer to do it on my own. Have the training, learn the software, and you’re good to go.

There’s a lot of famous bands that recorded their own music and they didn’t really have a producer. Led Zeppelin recorded all of their own albums and Jimmy Page produced all of them. It’s good to record your own music and not have someone else do it for you. Your own vision, your own sound, and your own creativity.

Kev