How to Setup a Home Studio | Everything You Need to Know

you cheap ain't you you don't want to keep going to the studio paying all of our leave rates you don't even like Pam producers you get all your beats off YouTube huh well but all y'all cheapskates out i'ma show you how you can just go ahead and put your own studio in your crib hey what's up family this your boy wavy Wayne welcome into my crib for a very special wavy weight tip of the day now I just sayin The Cribs episode jet but if y'all go to web you ain't calm and keep supporting them templates and stuff maybe I have some lamb bones and stuff outside so now might be an issue oh yeah you feel me all right so is that a wave wind calm and don't forget if you need professional mixer services you can always shoot me an email or just visit the website I got all the information down in the link below okay so building a home studio is pretty easy everybody seems to be doing it but not everybody is doing it right so I'm just gonna bring you right here and show you how I'm gonna actually set up my home studio if you've been following me on instagram which you know you should be then you already know that I just recently upgraded my computer in the studio so I got this iMac that I usually have at the studio that I'm bringing it home and I'm gonna be able to do some editing some pre-production work and you know I'm saying let Lydia and the kids learn Pro Tools and play around on it and stuff in the crib so um yeah without further ado let's talk about what items you are going to need to start setting up your home studio you can do this in your living room your bedroom your bathroom wherever you find the space but yeah here's what you're gonna need first you obviously gonna need a computer alright don't matter what kind of computer I definitely prefer that you get a Mac no because I'm a Mac nose you don't matter what kind of computer you get get you a computer that works well and yeah let's start there next thing you're going to need is an audio interface audio interface is gonna be the link between your microphone and your speakers and stuff to the computer so that is a necessity now without an audio interface you still can use the built-in outputs and the built-in microphones on most computers but it's definitely not recommended especially if you want to use these recordings in any kind of professional setting which is very possible I've cut records everywhere from home studios to hotel rooms I've even cut records in the car while when you're driving down the highway ice water coughs water bombs what am i alright the next item that you're gonna need is whatever software that you're gonna be using to record with now of course this is a Pro Tools Channel uh-huh but if y'all wanna see me start doing some tutorials on logic and other stuff like that leave that in the comments below man I'm thinking about dabbling and tragic maybe Studio One or something for ya alright but whatever software you choose make sure you got that and you got it installed on your computer the next thing that you're gonna need is whatever cables that are necessary alright so XLR cables to connect your microphone to the interface you're also gonna need speaker cables to connect your speakers to to connect your speakers to the interface you also are gonna need whatever power cables are needed to power all this stuff up right now I definitely recommend that you get a surge protector because this studio gears expensive we want to protect it another thing that you might need that you might choose to have our studio monitors okay studio monitors will definitely help you to have a better monitoring environment but depending on your situation you may or may not be able to have studio monitors if you live in an apartment or if you have neighbors or something like that that would prevent you from having those studio monitors man and I'm not sure if y'all hear that but we got like a train in the background going down I'm going to show you some ways that we possibly can minimize the noise if we especially when we're not in a professionally treated recording environment another thing that you're definitely going to need is headphones okay maybe one pair maybe two pair if you're the artist and the producer and the engineer then you just need that one pair of headphones but if you're gonna be recording somebody else in your home studio maybe making it a small business inside of your house then you're definitely gonna need multiple pairs of headphones because again without an isolation booth you're just gonna be impossible for you to play back the audio out loud while somebody is actually standing right next to you with a microphone recording okay we don't want that kind of feedback happening so make sure that you get some good quality isolation headphones now you're obviously gonna need a microphone okay so whatever microphone you choose is gonna be up to you I definitely recommend that you choose a microphone that's not too sensitive don't go out and spend ten thousand dollars on a sony c 800 and put that in your home studio you're gonna hear everything you're gonna hear the neighbor baby crying if you get that microphone and put it in your house okay get a microphone a decent microphone don't just go the cheapest that you can but understand that the more sensitive the microphone is it's picking up all the nuances in your voice is also gonna pick up all the nuances in your recording environment that could be the floor creaking it could be the air conditioner could be a fan it could be a truck driving by blowing his horn okay so be conscious of the type of microphone that you choose when you are recording in an untreated environment now unless you've got a handheld mic like us sm57 or something unless you're gonna be rocking one of these put your session then you're definitely gonna need a microphone stand so having a good sturdy microphone stand it's also gonna help reduce some of that Rumble and yeah and give you you know what you need to support your microphone all right so I think that's all that we actually need there may be some things missing if I missed anything that you feel like we definitely need in this home studio make sure you leave a comment below otherwise let's go ahead and take a look at how we gonna get started with setting this joint up so our first thing first I got my computer now I'm gonna go ahead and grab my audio interface over here she's got it sitting off to the side I'm going to be using the UAB up twin ok this is a super dope interfaces I've had this for a few years but it's this is perfect okay it doesn't matter which interface you got maybe you got a scarlet or who knows you got an inbox I don't know what kind of interface you got but you're definitely going to need an interface and whatever cable is needed this interface connects via firewire to my computer and it has a power cable as well some interfaces are just USB powered or bus power where you can just plug it in and play those are great this one actually requires some external power so I'm gonna go ahead and get this connected first I got the cable so the first thing I'm going to do is connect the power cable to the Apollo again your interface may or may not require external power but this one does so let's go ahead and connect the power first I'm gonna connect the power cable to the Apollo it just goes in and this clicks nicely I love power cables that give you a nice little twist so that they don't accidentally come out and pull I hate the look cheap joint said that just pull out all easily pause oh but yeah so I'm gonna do that then let me just drop this below and plug this up into my surge protector okay and then the next step I'm going to take the lightning cable that is also needed to connect this to the computer and I'm just going to plug this lightning adapter right up to cable right up to the interface first and then into the back of this iMac it's important to keep your cables neat right and put them behind the table you don't want to be tripping over more especially since we're in the home environment you don't want your kids to walk in and trip over anything and bring the whole system down you got to trade them in the kids that is all right so I got my audio interface set up the next thing I'm gonna do is actually set up my studio monitors and get those in place now this is a little mixture folding table that I just had laying around the house so this is what I'm gonna be using for now until I decide to upgrade the table you may be using a table a desk a dresser or whatever you got to use what you got till you get what you want so with that being said yeah I got my KRK Rokit fives yeah I took these out my studio I got a bunch of old studio gear that's laying around but on the back of here we have the power cable so I'm going to go ahead and connect those first and then I'm going to connect the inputs here from the out of the audio interface and we'll see about those I'll show you the cables and everything that you need to use for that but as you can see that why we're here though it uses either a balance TRS cable or an XLR cable now I'm just going to be using the TRS input because the outputs on the Apollo is a TRS quarter inch so I'm just gonna keep that simple now I could have had a little cable that goes from TRS to XLR but I got TRS cable so I'm using TRS cables again use what you got so there we go now I also had these little of dusty I also had these little isopods iso acoustic isopods laying around my studio because I used to use these there but these are great for decoupling your studio monitors from the table that you in and actually I'm really gonna be using these to help mainly to help raise the monitors up because they are so low on the table as far as width yeah it'll be about right I'm pretty close to these monitors you know we want that equilateral triangle so equal distance from each monitor to you from the monitors right y'all know about that if you don't leave a comment and I'll leave I'll make a video one day on setting that up properly but I'm just using these isopods and you'll see what I do with them here I'm just gonna pop one right there and I want these angled I want my mind to be angled in toward me toward my ears you want two monitors to be pointed towards your ears a little bit so there we go that's my first monitor there and then I'll just set up my second one over here and again the first thing that I'm gonna do is just go ahead and connect the power cables to each one of these to the surge protector and then I'll connect the the audio cables tool like I said before the studio monitors are definitely optional if you don't have studio monitors headphones are gonna be fine and at least it maybe you will work your way up to getting some studio monitors that's cool too but headphones are good you're gonna be doing mostly I work in the headphones because I think it is home studio is more like a pre-production phase you can get some recordings as long as you know how to record get some good clean recordings and then take it to a professional mix engineer to have them mixed properly for you all right so let's just go ahead and connect these power cables and I'm going down baby all right I just need to double-check this coat all right so the power cables are in next is gonna be the audio cables so let's take a look at the back of the Apollo Lydia I'm not sure if you could zoom in on this a little bit on the back of the Apollo though you can see my monitor outputs monitor left and monitor right those are the outputs that I'm gonna be using to connect to my studio monitors now if I'm just using headphones I have a headphone jack on the front again every audio interface is different so make sure that you read your owners manual to find out exactly how to connect your interface to your gear okay so let's just sit that there for now and I'm gonna grab these cables okay so here are the cables let me just show you exactly what we working with um actually I'm gonna show you this one oh not that one all right so this is what balanced TRS cables look like okay you see you got the tip the ring in the sleeve okay so this is what you need to connect your studio monitors to your audio interfaces what's recommended there so go to Guitar Center or whatever grab you a pair of these and yeah that's how we're gonna connect them so here we go I'm gonna go ahead and hook these up I'm gonna start by first just going to the interface okay left it's my left side yeah my left then we going from the left and I'm just gonna pop that right in there and then I'm gonna put the one that goes into the right right there as well okay and then I'm gonna turn this back around and run this cable behind the computer and everything again cables need to be out of sight and neat as much as possible cool so far so good the next thing we're gonna do is talk about microphone placement now obviously I'm in an untreated room and you probably can hear some of the reflections in here we got hardwood floors and it's a very spacious living room area that I'm in but with that being said I have a reflection filter oh let me let me show you how that actually because this is another thing that you could use I'm gonna be using this reflection filter when I set my microphone up right um they sell these all over this is one made by a company called Sterling that they're not too expensive but what this will help do is and you probably can't even hear it right now with my microphone that I'm wearing on my on my shirt here is that it will stop the room reflections from coming back into the microphone so with that being said a couple of things about microphone placement in this home studio one we want to not put the microphone close up to a wall okay if you put the microphone too close to a wall then you're gonna be getting immediate reflections right back into that microphone which could cause some phase cancellation and it's gonna be horrible and then and that kind of problem you just cannot fix it ain't gonna be no II cueing it out certain frequencies are just gonna be totally missing so do not do not do not do not put your microphone next to the wall okay coat and the best thing actually when you are in an untreated environment is to try to put that microphone as far away from any walls or hard surfaces as possible for the sake of this video I'm just going to be setting my microphone up pretty much right here next to me I'm gonna set it right here in this little corner again I got them I have this reflection filter this is gonna help stop these reflections here and that that's coming from the corner and then again so if I'm faced in this way any sound that's going into that corner and bouncing back is gonna be blocked by this filter and then any sound that's coming from around me is gonna be blocked by my big old head from going into the microphone so you are kind of gonna be like the other reflection filter if you have one of these they also have the chaotic ax eyeball which is really great if y'all watching this send me one of them joints I would love to test it out in this home studio and see what kind of sound I can get if you're out if you already tried the chaotic eyeball leave a comment let us know is it dope is it not should we get it what you think but for now I have this so I'm gonna be rocking with this again use what you got my here's my microphone stand this one up there cool I'm gonna get this going just gonna give it a little Shum Shum cool alright so that's my mic stand now I'm gonna grab the shock mount that was included with the microphone that I'm gonna be using today I'm just using a shure KSM 27 it's one of the first mics I bought when I was down at for sale but it's really an incredible mic and again I've recorded too I recorded some Jim Jones stuff on this mic I've recorded at hotels on this mic in my apartment yeah and the stuffs been on the radios man it's been a lot of places so for like a three hundred dollar microphone it's gonna do the trick here today so I'm just gonna go ahead and set that up one thing about setting up a microphone especially ones that have a shock mount and especially mics that ain't yours or if it is yours man you want to take care of your stuff you see I'm gonna put this shock mount on the microphone stand but without the microphone in it okay I don't want to be twirling the microphone around like that and you know I'm saying I have somebody interning or assisting me I definitely don't want to see them twirling and twisting my microphone around so I'm just going to go ahead and connect the shock mount to the stand make sure that it's nice and tight okay and we can twist this to where is hanging upside down now the reason why a lot of engineers like to hang condensers and two microphones upside down it's because the capsule gets pretty warm when it's on turned on and by having it upside down whether the body of it gets pretty warm so by having it upside down it allows that heat to rise you know the heat rises right right heat rise up and and it won't go to the capsule which could affect the sound or burn out that capsule right but it's not a huge deal for real honestly I promise all right but it also looks cool so I'm gonna keep mine upside down too and here's my microphone and this beautiful beautiful case what is just velvet that's right I like to take care of the mic so I put them in whatever kind of case they come back in when I'm not using it you don't want to just leave it hanging I mean unless you're using it all the time at least put something over it right there's a lot of dust if you find checking and stuff you're getting the smoke all over you blowing blunts an hour let you don't want that stuff to be laying on your capsule or your microphone it's gonna really damage the microphone so just take care of the microphone cover it or put it away when it's not being used so I'm just gonna go ahead and connect the microphone to the mic stand make sure that it's hard and then I'm gonna take this thing here it's called a pop filter and I'm gonna connect this pop filter to my microphone stand okay pop filters are good for catching the plosives right you don't want all of the peas and the bees and stuff like that they cause some real low in interference that we really try to keep out of our recordings so that is why it's so good and necessary to record - with the pop filter whenever you have vocals this is one of my old pop filters but you know what it's still gonna work just tighten that thing back up act like that never happened so I'm just gonna go ahead and tighten his pop filter securely to the mic snare now to do so a good rule of thumb here just turn this to the side you want to always make sure that you have about a fist distance from your microphone to the actual caps from the pop filter to the microphone okay you don't want to just have it sitting right up against the microphone that pretty much defeats the purpose so you want to keep a fist distance between the microphone and the pop filter at all times all right and it's also good to if you a pan down here Lydia to make sure that the weight of the microphone is on one of the feet all right you see how the front of the mic is on the foot other mic stand so that the mic stand it ain't you see that is supported if it was in the gap right here it could easily tip over but by the weight being supported by the foot I'm gonna be good alright so next you definitely want to put the reflection filter and honestly you probably want to do this before you put the actual mic on especially if you're not very careful because you don't want to be doing so much around the microphone and accidentally bump it or something and knock it down but I'm a professional and I can do what I want to do you feel me so here's my reflection filter I'm just going to tighten that down onto the mic stand as best as possible to where the microphone is in the middle it is right you don't want it to be too high or too low and defeat the whole purpose of you even having it up okay so boom boom boom I got my own reflection filter tighten that up got my pop fill - and the microphone so we're looking good the next step we're going to need to do is go ahead and connect our XLR cable to our interface and then to our microphone and then to our interface and then we'll be able to load up Pro Tools or whatever the doll you use it and start recording baby I got my XLR you want to take the female end of the XLR and connect it to the actual microphone you want to hear it click okay just be careful with that and then I'm just going to take that cable I'm gonna wrap it around here one time that's just gonna be good in case anything fails with this mic stand or the shock mount or something like that the cable being wrapped around this stand a little bit will help to catch it and maybe there might can just dangle I learned all these precautions by working with very expensive microphones that I just would not buy any reason wanna see them fall yeah especially the ones that weren't mine um so yeah here we go Oh Coco Co so I'm just gonna now let's run this cable let's see we'll probably let me move the mic a little bit that'll be a decent home for it for now and this could be next to your bed if you're in a bedroom or something you're probably gonna be better off because you have so much absorption in there with the bed being a nice base trap you got carpet being like you know a nice little absorption as well I'm just gonna run this XLR cable back this way over under and up to my Apollo again you can see and I'm just going to connect the XLR right to my client input one on the Apollo coat and now I'm ready to start doing something my um so let's go ahead and power on the Apollo once the Apollo loads up and turns itself on whoa or your interface whatever it is if you have a USB interface then this at this time if you don't have a power switch this is when you will just plug it in and I'm just gonna reach over here to the back and turn on my studio monitors don't forget the headphones I got those headphones just in case whenever I'm ready to record got those earphones and I can just click it right here if you're using Pro Tools then you definitely gonna need an eye like I just have to go and find where mines with that so this is where your license for that software is actually going to be it's a little USB I lock you need to make sure that you have updated your licenses or and all of that and that you put it into the computer and any open USB slot I really wish that out of it would get away from that and then I'm just going to go ahead and launch Pro Tools and confirm that everything is working now this microphone is a condenser microphone so while my Pro Tools is loading up I'm gonna just hit the plus 48 volts button on my audio interface to go ahead and send some power to this mic all right so I got Pro Tools loaded up I'm just gonna go ahead and create a test session and we'll just save this to the desktop alright again if you need more information on how to actually record in Pro Tools I have a full tutorial I'll leave the link in the description how to record in Pro Tools how to set all those parameters and stuff that we just saw on that dashboard I'll leave that link in the description but I'm just going to go ahead and get this started and just test everything out for now code so when I'm recording our vocals were using this single microphone I'm just gonna need one mono audio track so I'm just gonna create that track and now I'm just going to make sure that the input is set to input one saying that that's why I plug in my microphone to on my audio interface now let's just run through one little tip real quick let's say maybe for some reason when you hit record a neighbor on that track you're not getting your mic signal again double-check and make sure that if your microphone is a condenser that you have enabled the phantom power on it that plus 48 volts also you want to go to the setup menu choose playback engine and ensure that the playback engine is set to your audio interface and if you see right now the playback engine is set to some flower 64 channel I don't want that I want it to be going to my universal audio thunderbolt so I need to click that and produce is gonna actually close my session and reopen it it's good that I even thought to tell you that because honestly I ain't even know that was about to be messed up but you gotta check checking your parameters checking your settings is so important make sure you watching that camera alright so now I need to go and I'm gonna have to change some IO setups hopefully you won't have to do this I have a more complicated setup than you will so I just have to go through a few more things but I'm just defaulting my i/o setup preferences whoops go back again go to my inputs I'm gonna select all of these delete them if you ever have a problem you just select all the paths that delete them and hit the default button and they don't get you back right okay so I'm just gonna go ahead and choose mic line 1 and choose my output for my main output again I have a fourth video tutorial on how to record in Pro Tools if you need help with what I just did alright so another thing that I need to do right now before I record and they will distract since I do have studio monitors I need to make sure that the studio monitor levels are down otherwise I'm gonna be getting some feedback with this mic being so close and they facing each other so I'm just gonna click on my interface your interface may be different but I'm just gonna make sure that my monitor level is turned all the way down and that my headphone level is turned up and then I'm a record enabled my track and I'm hearing myself which is a good son because you know I'd like to hear myself baby and that sounds pretty good too especially to be in this room I told you this reflection filter works miracles so let's just go ahead and record a little song Samsung I'm gonna make sure my input level is good make sure that you got batteries in your smoke detectors otherwise intelligent beams will get into your recording all right so here we go y'all let's record this is a test a home studio test this is how you record at home the best and now you don't need to go to studio oh I didn't I didn't say that I didn't say that and voila you just created your very first home recording if you found this video helpful at all even just a little bit make sure that you like comment and subscribe and if you already subscribed then go ahead and hit that notification button so that you can be the first one to get all my new videos made alright I do this for the people man visit wavy wane.com and cut one of my professional recording templates so you can record your session the same way I record in my sessions alright also feel free to hit me up if you ever need professional mixing services thanks for watching this video now go home and be dope [Music]

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Length: 32min 4sec (1924 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 22 2019