Welcome to your music lessons
My name is Eilish San and today we're going to see
how to build your own home studio
Like all my music software videos,
this video for whom is intended?
We're not talking about creating a recording studio at home
so you can earn money by recording third parties,
that is NOT a home studio
A home studio is a domestic, homemade studio,
so you can record yourself, your band,
create your compositions and more,
without having to spend money booking hours
in a real, proffesional recording studio
Of course, if you have as much knowledge
as the best sound engineers in the world,
you can get more out of your home studio
than if you're new to this, but I'll teach you
how to create a basic home studio,
assuming you are starting and want to spend
the minimum money to have the best quality possible
A home studio is based on the digital part
of recording, so we will not talk
about almost any instrument,
although obviously, if you want to record
an instrument manually, for example a guitar,
you need to have one!
But let's get to the basics, what do I really need
to have a home studio?
Really to have a home studio, you only need
three things, plus an additional one
for each instrument you want to record
That is, if you want to record a guitar
like we said before, then you need to have a guitar
and if you want to record voices
you will need to have a microphone
What are the three things we will need
to have a home studio?
Basically you need a computer,
a good quality audio interface
and a DAW or digital audio workstation
Which computer do you need?
This will depend mainly on the sound card
and the DAW you want to use, since each
will have its minimum requirements, although obviously
the better it is, the better you will record and the
less errors you will get due to lack of resources
An important point is that if you do not already have it,
you get a computer with a 64 bit processor,
as it is increasingly tended to make software
and plugins for 64 bits and less for 32 bits
As for the DAW, we've already talked about this
in previous videos, after having tried
and compared the latest version of practically
all DAW in the market I highly recommend you
Trackform Waveform
As surely you have already seen, and if not do not wait any more,
go to the video and see for yourself, it is one of the
best audio quality DAW available today,
with many tools, a good interface
and at a affordable price of $ 99,
about € 85 with today's conversion
That you think it's a lot to pay € 85 or you do not have them now
and maybe later? Well do not worry,
because Tracktion offers free for everyone
the T6 version of the DAW, and as a bundle
with Behringer or Mackie products the T7 version
As you can see, the differences between the T6
and T7 versions are mostly interface, with few additions
of functionality like grouped or linked clips,
automation patterns and LFO generatos
Between the T7 version and the T8, which is Waveform,
the differences are basically the additional plugins
in Waveform, MIDI pattern generators,
detailed MIDI editor and support for Raspberry Pi
So there is not so much difference between one version and another,
my suggestion?
Get the T6 version for free and try it out,
if you like it you're always on time to upgrade to T8,
and they sometimes offer discounts on the purchase if you have
a previous version, even if it's the free version!
What are the requirements of the DAW?
Waveform and T6 have the same, an Intel Core 2 Duo
processor at 2Ghz with 2 Gb of RAM or better,
so virtually any modern equipment
T7 has slightly higher minimum requirements,
Intel Core i5 at 2Ghz with 4 Gb of RAM or better
All versions support macOS, Windows and Linux,
although if you want to use it in your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3
you will need the T8 version, Waveform
We already have the DAW,
now what audio interface do I buy?
Here we have many options,
there are many brands, there is a lot of price diversity,
and it depends on what type of connectors you have,
since there are with USB connectors,
Thunderbolt, DigiLink or Lightning
So let's go to the most important point,
what does my audio interface need to have?
Mainly, especially if you are going to record microphones,
which is the most common thing, it needs to have
48V Phantom Power,
so that when you connect your microphone it works
without needing anything additional
If you use a condenser microphone,
which would be normal in a recording studio
since they have a better response than dynamic mics,
you need Phantom power
to power them on, and if your sound card
does not include it, you will need to buy one
There are many brands, but I advise you to look
and if you can try the following, and choose
according to your possibilities, needs and tastes
Well-known brands with good audio interfaces are
Focusrite, Steinberg, M-Audio and Native Instruments
Do you know any other brand that is worth it?
Then remember to leave it in the comments so that
others can try it to see if they like it more!
I use myself Focusrite,
a well-known brand specializing in
audio interfaces, with their own preamplifiers,
of very good quality, and with many
formats according to your connectivity needs,
so I'll talk a little more about this
Which model would be the most common, affordable
in terms of price and suitable for a home studio?
The Scarlett range is connected via USB, and comes with a price
that is quite affordable depending on the model you want
The cheapest is the Scarlett Solo,
currently valued at 110 €
Honestly, I do not advise you to buy the Scarlett Solo,
as it has an XLR type input and a separate jack input,
for € 40 plus buy the 2i2,
also with two inputs but combined,
so you can connect two XLR or two jacks at the time,
giving you a lot more versatility
In addition the Scarlett Solo has RCA outputs,
while the 2i2 has balanced jack outputs
Now, neither of these has MIDI inputs or outputs,
so my advice, which is what I use,
is to go to version 2i4, 50 € more than 2i2,
but with MIDI input and output, besides having
both balanced jacks and RCA outputs,
this model is about 200 €
There are larger models, 6i6, 18i8 and 18i20,
but honestly for a home studio you do not need
more than 2i4, unless you need something more
specific like S/PDIF or ADAT inputs and outputs
According to the page the requirement for these cards
is that you have MacOS or Windows, although I
personally have used the 2i4 correctly
on Linux without any problem
and without the need for additional drivers
For Windows you can download the drivers
from your Focusrite user, which you can create
by registering your audio interface
And that's it, there're no additional system requirements,
so the computer you have must be
powerful enough to meet
the requirements of the DAW
Once we have all this, you just need to connect,
in our case via USB, the audio interface
to our computer, install the drivers if we are
using Windows, restart, install the DAW,
in our case Waveform, restart again,
configure Waveform as we saw in its video and done,
you already have a home studio
Assuming you already have a computer,
that if you are seeing this is most logical,
the expense has been around 300 € if you use Waveform
and Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, 200 € if you want to use
the free version T6, and less if you prefer the 2i2
or the Scarlett Solo, so you can see it is not so expensive
to build a home studio!
Of course now comes the big question,
what do you want to do with your home studio?
If you only intend to compose and create
songs from MIDI using virtual instruments,
without recording any real audio, you do not need
the audio interface, just with the computer
and DAW you have what it's needed
If you want to record one or more real instruments,
depending on what you want to record,
as I said before, you will need more or less equipment
For example, if you want to record a guitar, you're probably
a guitar player and you already have guitar equipment,
so you have two options, connect your guitar
directly to the audio interface, selecting
instrument on its input, and record a clean guitar
then treat the sound with plugins, or use
your preamp, multi-effects and others if you want to record
that particular sound by selecting line on the input
and use the line output of your gear
The most normal, voice recording, just plug
your microphone to your audio interface and turn on
the Phantom Power in case it is a condenser
microphone, which would be ideal
for making quality recordings
If you are looking for a microphone, there are online stores
where you can see prices, some quite famous
like thomann.de or musicstore.de, and before buying
anything, always look for comparatives online
I, for example, use a Studio Projects C1 Mk2,
with a sound very similar to the prestigious
and world-famous Neumann U87 although
with louder high frequencies, so depending
on what you are going to use it for think about whether
it is what you are looking for or not, at a 10 times lower price
Personally, for recording female voices
I think it has a great quality
for its price of 200 €
One last detail, if you connect both a microphone
and another instrument, such as a keyboard,
and you need to use the Phantom Power, make sure
the other instrument is connected with a jack cord,
since if you use XLR for the instrument
the audio interface will think that you want
Phantom Power on that input too
and can make quite a bit of noise
In short, to create a home studio you need
a computer, 64-bit if possible,
from here the more powerful the better
but at least that it meets meets the DAW system requirements,
a DAW which, as we have seen, the best currently
is Trackform Waveform, or its free version T6,
and if you want to record audio, an audio interface,
in my case Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
The cost is the computer plus between 100 and 300 euros
depending on which audio interface
and DAW version you use
Also, if you want to record voices, you need
a condenser microphone, in my case
it is the Studio Projects C1 Mk2, at 200 €,
that with an antipop, an absorbing diffuser screen
and some stands for the micro and the screen they sum
another € 300, depending on which microphone
you want to use, of course
Once you have everything you need to record audio
and compose in MIDI, you only need additional plugins
to treat each instrument, which exist in multiple
formats, such as AU, AAX, RTAS, LV2,
being the most famous, specifically because it is
the standard protocol for Windows, VST plugins
There are many free plugins, some
of very good quality, many will be included with your DAW
or your audio interface, or you will have the option
to buy them at a much lower price if you buy them
bumdled with the DAW, like Tracktion's Biotek when buying
Waveform, and others you can buy separately
Again, depending on which plugins and how many you want to use
at once you will need a more powerful computer, for example,
the requirements for Omnisphere from Spectrasonics
are a 2.4 Ghz processor, 4 Gb of RAM
and 64 Gb of free disk space, while
Biotek's Tracktion are an intel core 2 duo
at 2 Ghz, 2 Gb of RAM and 3 Gb of disk space
Prices here are totally variable,
depending on what plugins you want to use, from 0,
since there are many free plugins and that come bundled
with your DAW or your audio interface, up to hundreds
or thousands of euros, if you want to use the most expensive
plugins with more realistic sounds
So far we have seen what do you need
to build your own home studio,
any doubt or thing you want to share
remember to leave it in the comments
I hope that you like this video, that you find it useful
and I'll see you in the next video
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