If you're building a music recording setup and you're on a tight budget
We're looking at 5 pieces of cheap home studio gear
for under $50
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in this video we're looking at 5 pieces of
cheap home studio gear that are under
$50 U.S. each I've put a link to
all of the products mentioned in this video in the description below
so you can check them out whenever you like. With all
that out of the way. Let's jump in
First up we're looking at the heart of your studio. it's your
audio interface and this is the
Behringer UM2 audio interface. It goes for around
$40 U.S. and even though
its extremely affordable. you can actually get some great
results with this. You have your mic preamp that accepts XLR mics
and also your line input goes in here
you have an instrument input, direct monitoring button
you also have your headphone output on the front
your monitor output on the back
and you also have your phantom power switch here
so you can connect condenser microphones to this audio interface
it records at 16 bits
and can go up to 48,000 Hz
which is beyond CD quality I've actually
done several videos on the Behringer UM2. I'll link
to them in the description of this video in case you want to check those out
Next up we have a dynamic microphone and again
this comes from the Behringer company it's the
Behringer XM8500 Dynamic mic and
this mic goes for around $20 it's an
extremely great value I'm actually talking into it
right now as you can see and this is raw
audio, it's not been edited at all it's just
the mic going directly into my audio interface
and you can hear how it sounds let me know in the comments below
what you think of the sound the Behringer XM8500
dynamic mic is great for recording
vocals, instruments, and you can even mic up
your guitar amp cabinet be sure to check this one out
This next item is a little bit of a cheater item
because it is slightly over $50
It's $58. It's the MXL V67G
condenser microphone
and the reason why I'm going with this one
is because in this price point for condenser microphones
most of them are very
thin sounding and they have a lot of background noise
The MXL V67G will give you great
results with just a slight little bit of EQ
also, I've seen this mic go on sale several
times on Amazon and it usually goes for $50
and under when it's on sale so check back on Amazon
often if you're interested in purchasing it. Next up
we'll look at some studio headphones
These are the Tascam TH-02
they're listed as $30 regularly
but you can often find them on sale for
under $20. They look great
and they can be fairly comfortable if you're going to be wearing them
for long periods of time but like most
headphones in this price point you're not going to get a true flat
sound out of these but once you get used to the frequencies
that these headphones hype you should be able to get great results
out of recording and mixing with them now the final piece
of budget home studio gear for under $50
that we're going to be looking at is the M-Audio Keystation 32 midi controller
you get 32 velocity sensitive keys and that's about
all for controls on the keyboard itself
but really it's all you need to make music with
you also get the M-Audio Edition
of Pro Tools First which includes some great instruments
that actually make the Pro Tools First DAW very
respectable. So really you get the controller
a DAW with some great plugins and it's just
$49 that's not a bad value
the price for all 5 pieces of studio gear
is just $198 and that's if you
pay full price for everything so for under $200
your getting a great starter set up with an
audio interface. 2 microphones
a midi keyboard and some headphones to use for
recording and mixing not a bad deal
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