How much does building a STUDIO in your home cost?

[johnjohn320]

Now, this is nothing I'm considering doing in the near-future, but it'd be cool someday...

How much does building a recording studio into your home/basement cost? like, the works: full sound-proof walls, microphones, mixers, synths, studio monitors, etc etc. Just a curiosity question.

 

[BlueApple]

Upwards of 75k-100k I'd imagine.

 

[aphex]

<< Upwards of 75k-100k I'd imagine. >>



Id venture higher, maybe even 150-200k

 

[Ns1]

depends on how l33t you want your equipment to be

 

[fatbaby]

MICS

Mixers

Studio monitors

headphones

synth/keyboard

l33t

Request a catalog!

 

[Thegonagle]

Sounds like big bucks. I'd go at a little bit at a time, with really good quality stuff that you know will still be really good stuff ten years from now. Like maybe start with some good microphones, and just plug them into your sound card and start having some fun. Use Cool Edit Pro and burn some CDs. If you have fun, and acquire equipment a little bit at a time, and the cost won't feel like such a big issue, kind of like any other hobby.

Eventually, you'll move into your own house and start framing some walls in your basement and move in all your equipment.

 

[apoppin]

It can be done on a shoe-string budget if you are very knowledgable, do all the work yourself and will buy good used gear.

Some of my musician friends have done this . . . basically you start small and expand from there. But unless you know what you are doing you might end up with a lot of "dead-end stuff".

Soundproofing is not that hard or expensive if you have construction skills.

 

[johnjohn320]

<< MICS

Mixers

Studio monitors

headphones

synth/keyboard

l33t

Request a catalog! >>



Musician's Friend sends me a catalog every couple weeks, doesn't really answer about physically having a studio built.

 

[apoppin]

<< Musician's Friend sends me a catalog every couple weeks, doesn't really answer about physically having a studio built. >>



Having it built? Verry expensive. Doing it yourself = cost of material + your time and skills. Depends how big? How many musicians at one time? Is it for yourself and your band or a "pro" setup where you will charge mucisians to record. If your setup is pro, then you'd better have an awesome engineer - the best studio in the world won't work without someone really knowledgable at the controls.

Start small . . . really small, and expand as you need to.

 

[thomsbrain]

All you need is some reliable software and a nice mic to start out. Get yourself the Studio Projects C1. It's $200, sturdy as hell (I'm talking close miking Marshall stacks sturdy) and sounds incredible. It is the best mic I have ever heard, period (and that includes all the big names in recording, and a lot of mics upwards of $2K). Vocals, guitars, strings, you name it, this mic just sounds beautiful. Next you'll need software and some decent hardware I/O.

If you've got $15K or so you can get a pretty well featured Pro Tools system and some mics and monitors and stuff, and really have a great sounding setup. And they make it for Windows 2K now, too!