Planning on building my own home studio, need help!

[Monocle]

Hey guys, so as some of you might know I record music in my own home, unfortunately that has as of today become impossible because all of the equipment I was using was owned by my brother and he's moving the rest of it out tonight. So I come to you; Blockland Forums, I know some of you are audiophiles and would be able to help me out here, so tell me, what do I need to build a home studio based off of a PC running Windows (by August or September it'll be mac based though! :D)

Currently I'm looking at home bundles so I could save a little bit of cash, this is the one that caught my eye;

http://www.guitarcenter.com/M-Audio-BX5a-Monitor-and-Mic-Package-582250-i1447378.gc

Now what else am I missing? My brothers studio costed him thousands upon thousands of dollars, so I'm completely clueless as to what else to get, I'm not looking to spend more than like ~600 dollars on all of this though. :o


Thanks in advance, and cheers <3

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[SeventhSandwich]

what do I need to build a home studio based off of a PC running Windows (by August or September it'll be mac based though! :D)

Despite all the hipster friendly commercialism Apple has released to make you think Macs are good for musicians, it's not at all.

FL Studio is in no way mac compatible, and garageband is the most useless thing ever.

[Monocle]

Despite all the hipster friendly commercialism Apple has released to make you think Macs are good for musicians, it's not at all.

FL Studio is in no way mac compatible, and garageband is the most useless thing ever.

I'm not getting it only for music, lol, it's required for the college I'm going to.

And I didn't use FL Studio for my composition in my old studio, I only used that for electronica tracks, for acoustic and stuff I used Live studio and Cubase.

[SeventhSandwich]

I'm not getting it only for music, lol, it's required for the college I'm going to.

If your college requires you to buy a mac I suggest you switch colleges immediately

[Monocle]

If your college requires you to buy a mac I suggest you switch colleges immediately

No, it doesn't require a mac, but it does require a notebook, and seeing as how for my needs in school it'd have to be a notebook roughly around 900 dollars, I figured I'd dish out another 200 and get a laptop that I'm used to.

I've never used a windows based laptop up until my last one which was a horrendous experience, and I never plan on going back to windows for notebooks, in terms of desktop computers, I refuse to use anything except for Windows.


Anyway, a mac VS pc discussion isn't what I wanted, I need a list of stuff to acquire, so instead of coming in here and Q_Qing about my computer choice, would you mind helping me?

[Monocle]

Halp pls :(

[SeventhSandwich]

No, it doesn't require a mac, but it does require a notebook, and seeing as how for my needs in school it'd have to be a notebook roughly around 900 dollars, I figured I'd dish out another 200 and get a laptop that I'm used to.

Get a Toshiba Qosmia, they are designed for gaming which means they have hardware that can support anything you want.
Priced from 900-1700$

[Monocle]

Get a Toshiba Qosmia, they are designed for gaming which means they have hardware that can support anything you want.
Priced from 900-1700$

I don't want it for gaming. I want it for school and on-the-go production.

Anyway, I've got my whole set-up, thanks for the helpful input [/sarcasm]

[Narkro555]

SeventhSandwich is correct.

[Tomcat]

I'd get a macbook air. It's light, portable, not much thicker than a electronic tablet, and it works. Great for typing on the go and can be packed an moved in a hurry. It's not so durable though.

[rockslide26]

Macs are great for music, ask a guy who uses one. They're very user friendly, and record nicely.