The Home Studio Gear Guide PT.1 The best gear to buy if you're on a budget in 2019: Audio Interfaces
The Home Studio Gear Guide PT.1 The best gear to buy if you're on a budget in 2019: Audio Interfaces
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I'm starting my home studio from scratch, what should I buy? How do I get started? What do I need to get good quality recordings on a budget? I want to send you my tracks for mixing, are they going to be good enough quality? What gear should to buy?
I get these questions every day and I reply to them as often as I can, but with the new site I hopefully help more people in one go by writing articles like this, and if you're here reading this, is because you know my advice on gear is 100% no BS.So let's get started! AUDIO INTERFACE The very first thing every home studio needs is an interface: you need to capture your analog signal, from a microphone, a guitar, a keyboard, convert it to digital so that you can work on it in your DAW. For this you need an AD/DA converter that you need to "interface", connect, to you computer. There are two ways to go about this:
Option 1: an "all in one" audio interface. Basically these units have in one box all you need to start recording and monitoring with your computer, desktop or laptop. Option 2: is a bit more complicated and more suited for professional studios or high end project studios, a dedicated multichannel AD/DA which you will have to connect to your computer in some way, PCIe cards, MADI, ADAT etc.. But then you will also need dedicated Preamps, a monitoring station and more.. so in this guide, I will list my favorite budget gear for Option 1, so all-in-one interfaces:
BEST QUALITY ON BUDGET