Making Music at Home

Basics for Setting up Your Home Studio

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If you’re fed up with listening to poor-quality phone recordings of your songs, this is the answer you’ve been looking for.

What if you can finally listen to your music, played by a band or a big orchestra?

And even better. Once you’ve written a part for every instrument, you can send it to your friends to learn for your upcoming band rehearsal.

Or you might want to practice your composing skills and try writing a song in different genres. Or try writing a soundtrack for a short movie and learning how to sync the background music with the screen events.

The possibilities are endless!

Actually, many mainstream artists today use their home studios to create whole albums. Just look at Charlie Puth’s album Voicenotes or Billie Ellish’s debut studio album, they’ve made all the songs from their home studios.

With that hype in mind, let’s look at the basic things you’ll need to set up your home studio and start writing some amazing music.

Hardware

Here’s a list of gears you’ll need to set your own studio.

Many of the requirements are similar to the ones needed to play videogames because making music draws a lot of…