Home studio question...

Cigar Sherlock

So I have my workstation (Yamaha Motif XS8) and purchased my monitor speakers today (yamaha HS-80m) so what's the next purchase I need to make. Your equipment opinions wanted! I do not have a FireWire set up yet and am clueless to setting the motif up to cubase on my laptop.

kuzi16

if you dont have QUALITY mics... get them. i dont know too much about studios, but i am a guitarnut.

stephen_hannibal

mrpillow

Renaissance_Man

What do you play?

stephen_hannibal

Rob1110

I agree with Kuz about mics. Without good quality uni-directional and multi-directional mics, all the processing and software in the world won't make your recordings sound good. As for brands, I'm lost. A buddy of mine has a studio (guitarist in my old band) but I haven't been in there in a few years.

mrpillow

Cigar Sherlock

Thank you all for the responses. I will probably be getting an audio interface but want to keep the price around 200. I basically play whatever feels good for the moment. Some days that is classical others might be the eagles...with some trance there in between. I have a mic and it's not a huge part of what I'll be composing...maybe for small samples. I appreciate the discussion! Keep that knowledge coming! The hs80s sound amazing btw

kuzi16

Theedge

My friend and I did some recording a few years back. I picked up a Boss 1600 recorder and used a couple of inexpensive Marshall mics and an SM58. The recording area was just the crappy old cement basement of my old house. We took it out of the box, opened up the direction manual and away we went. It didn't turn out half bad. Not professional, but not bad. Fellows2trio