$15,000 for a home studio... what would you do?!

[tecbang]

Lets say you inherit about $15,000 somehow... how would you budget that money towards a new home studio?

I'll be finishing my sound engineering/music production course this year and I plan to start a home based studio. I already have a good idea as to what I want and how my money is going to be used. But at the same time it's always good to hear anothers idea's to broaden ones horizon.

Oh and this will be a Pro Tools based studio...

[Y.E.]

I would say get the equipment you exactly or is similar to what you trained on

[brandondrury]

This could be a fun thread. Of course, it would depend on what the studio is in need for.

Budget Priority
#1 - Room Acoustics for control room ($3,000)
#2 - Studio monitors ($2,500)
#3 - Live Room Acoustics ($1,000)
#4 - Misc stuff no one thinks (power strips, mic stands, cables, cables cables $500)
#5 - Recording computer ($700)
#6 - Audio Interface / Software ($2,000)
#7 - Shure Beta 91 kick drum mic ($200)
#8 - (4) SM 57s used ($250)
#9 - (2) Audio Technica AT 4040 ($600)
#10 - (4) Oktava MK012s for toms, misc instruments ($500 used)
#11 - Royer R121 ($1,100)
#12 - (1) Cheapo ribbon mic ($300)
#13 - Chameleon Labs Model 7622 Preamp ($800)
#14 - Native Instruments Komplete 5 ($1,000)
#15 - UAD-1 PCI plugins card (used $200)
#16 - Shure SM7 ($350)
#16 - Night of drinking after you realized you just blew $15k on this crap! ($50)

That puts us at $15,050.

This is basically what I would do although I'd substitute Cubase for Pro Tools. As cash started coming in I'd want to get quite a few more mics (RE 20, AT 4050, MXL V69, AKG 414 all come to mind).

Brandon

[hamd_89]

Well how about we start by getting 15k each and we will go from there... lol

[Johnnywaud]

Here is what I would do:

Mac dual g5 used - $1500
digi002 used - $750
Avalon 737sp used - $1500
Personus acp88 new - $900
2 sytek mpx-4a used - $800 each
presonus central station new - $400
samson sphone headphone new - $150
5 behringer heapdhones new - $20 each
Rode K2 mic new - $700
5 sm57 new -$120 each
1 kick mic used - $100
mackie hr824 pair used - $800
1 pair octava mk012(russian ones) used - $400
3 good patchbays new -$100 each
cables/stands/wiring - $2500
room treatment/ vocal booth construction - $2500
used racks/speaker stands/ computer desk - $300