The Significance of a ‘Home Studio’ | The Revolver Club
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As an independent musician, there’s never been a better time to get started with a home recording studio set up, as equipment options are plentiful and prices are a fraction of what they once were.
Most of the best songs we’ve ever heard were written in bedrooms, hotel rooms or garages. Once limited to people with big money to burn on a pricey studio or access to a large space, recording and mixing a decent studio-quality track is now as simple as acquiring a few key pieces of equipment - and finding a couple of extra inches of table space.
A ‘Home Studio’ is a basic collection of equipment for recording or producing music at home in a bedroom or a garage.
A ‘Big Studio’ is a professional quality usually housed in a large space containing the highest possible grade of recording equipment.
Basic Elements required to set up a home-based studio:
It is definitely the best time for aspiring artists looking to record on their own as access to affordable recording equipment has made it extremely easier for people to create professional-grade tracks, further democratizing the DIY movement that has made stars out of everyone. Some of the greatest songs ruling the charts were essentially born inside someone’s bedroom, hotel room or garage.
Besides, having a personal home studio affords spontaneity and a larger degree of experimentation as opposed to big-time pro studios where one has to constantly keep track of expensive tick-tock of the clock.
The studio space required for mixing & mastering needs to be as “neutral” as possible. Letting the results being not coloured by the ambient character of the room you are recording/tracking. Many DIY solutions can be found on the interwebz for treating the room with acoustic panels & bass traps.
However, the biggest advantage of recording at a pro studio is the quality & quantity of the recording equipment available including the people operating it is almost always impressive. A professionally treated space can also make a huge difference.
But the things you need the most are creativity, honesty & conviction, further building a relationship with whatever equipment you have at the home studio can prove to be very helpful & even if there are limitations, they are often useful & can be exceedingly freeing & beneficial to the creative process.
Regardless, setting up a basic studio at home, even on a tight budget can provide astonishing results, the kind that would have required booking time in a professional studio not so long ago. The flexibility & the freedom to produce almost anywhere by plugging a Laptop computer loaded with a DAW & a pair of good headphones/monitors can not be denied either.
A supreme example is the prolific Delhi-based producer ‘SEZ on the Beat’ who’s at the center of India's hip-hop scene, writing beats in his home studio for almost every major artist.
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