The 5 MOST Important Home Studio Upgrades
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- In this video Brian gives you advice on what to upgrade first in your home recording studio to get it to the next level.
▶︎Chapters◀︎
00:00- Intro
00:36 - Tip nr.1
01:23 - Tip nr.2
02:31 - Tip nr.3
03:58 - Tip nr.4
05:03 - Tip nr. 5
06:27 - Outro
▶︎About us◀︎
We're LEWITT, an audio company based in Vienna, Austria. We believe great sound is for everyone, whether you're recording at home, on stage, or in the studio as a beginner or professional.
www.lewitt-audio.com/ - Hudba
What is the next thing you are going to upgrade in your home studio ?
The couch! That's number 6 right?
I think 6 would be a comfy studio chair! But that's a close contender
Going to upgrade my youtube algorithm for less misinformation.
Myself! It's number 0 on the list ;)
If you’re on a tight budget I would pick headphones over speakers + acoustic treatment. Especially if you’re producing electronic music. Get the best headphones in your budget and a good dac.
Awesome tips LEWITT!
Thanks!
Over the last month I was able to finally make some upgrades here. Most of it is included in the video and the rest I don't have to worry about just yet (microphone and audio interface are pretty good for what I'm making at the moment). So it would be nice to have a part 2, where we go into what's next. Not necessarily on what to buy, but, once we have all these fundamental bits in place, where to go. Or how to find out what is bottlenecking our productivity.
Good idea! Thanks for the feedback
Maybe...the microphone? :-). Looking forward to hearing what you say!
Interesting guess! 😉
This new information agrees with my previously-held beliefs, so it MUST be correct! LOL! As it turns out, my landlord sold the house I had been renting for twenty years, and my dream of setting up a home studio was only realized a few months before I had to sell everything and move out. It was great while it lasted, though, and I have no regrets for spending so much money and effort to improve the room sound with acoustic treatment. As for microphones (and interface), since one of the goals of my studio setup was to be able to record live drums, I had to make some compromises (quantity vs. quality). If I had known what I know now from the beginning I probably would have had a vastly different selection of mics, but I guess the point is moot because, like I said, I ended up selling everything before I got much of a chance to use it anyway.
Thanks for watching and sharing your experience! Bummer about your home studio but sounds like you learned a lot from the process
Room is always first no matter what. Phone audio will sound better than an ideal chain if you are comparing a treated room to a bare room.
Audio interface is next. Although this isn't a big deal. UMC202HD / UMC204HD will be more than enough.
You want to pick a microphone that isn't terrible. CAD D32 or GXL2200 if you have a bit of money, however you can make a Marantz or Behringer mic work.
The Rode NT1 or Lewitt 540s won't help you unless your room is absolutely (and I mean absolutely) silent and isolated from not only outside, but your own electronics and fan noise.
Get a computer with passive cooling, biggest reduction in noise you will find in the average bedroom studio.
HD 600s from Sennheiser has been a neutral studio headphone standard for years for a reason, they are neutral with great resolution and vocal intimacy.
Whatcha waiting for to break into the Nigerian market?
The Connect 6 was my dream come true when it launched (just Bluetooth left 😁), your mics are lovely (in reviews I trust at least)...
Make una enter 9ja market abeg 🙏
Great information and thanks for sharing. I'd love for you to talk about which Lewitt mic could do well in a PA setting for a live podcast Q&A session. (gentle suggestion: I found "let's get real" phrase repetition became tiresome.)
I ordered a Lewitt MTP 250 DM hoping it will serve for a portable handheld podcast mic. :) I'd love one that could go wireless, but don't understand how systems like the Lewitt Capsule integrate with compatible wireless systems. Like what is the cheapest solid solution to get into wireless for a Q&A session? Note: I am NOT in the Lectrosonics price range and likely never will be.
That's a great mic for live settings! Currently the only capsule we make that's compatible with wireless systems is the W9. Here's a list of compatible wireless systems: www.lewitt-audio.com/blog/mtp-w950-list-of-compatible-wireless-systems
I had seen that list. Can you identify the least expensive system to get into the game?@@LEWITT-audio
Sorry, I am not familiar enough with the different wireless systems solutions to answer this definitively. But looks like the Shure PGX-D one of the cheapest with interchangeable heads.
@@LEWITT-audio thanks for any help. You’re light years beyond me regardless. Cheers and thanks for video.
My upgrade will be lct440 pure -> Pure tube, when you give me a nice discount 😉
… get ozon izotope - the full version, and a good reverb like sir3, Berlin Studio and you will experience an upgrade in your sound like no other… ozon lets your tbones sound actually good. ..
Thank you for addressing the computer side of things, computers now compared to 5 years ago between PC and Mac have gone through insane advancements and people really should upgrade from that 10 year old PC and their complaints even minor ones will go away.
I upgraded a few months ago and built my own music/gaming PC. Holy sh*t does it help me so much as a creative. I never have to worry about crashing, CPU load, losing files, etc. It was a big investment of time and money but so worth it for what I do.
No idea where this myth came from. Can you name anything about computers "5 years ago" that's inadequate today?
Maybe if you're on mac because your hardware is already 3 years out of date on the flagship products, but not for a standard PC by any means.
@@skorpers The amount of people still on quad core CPUs, 4 - 8 GB of ram when it comes to this sorta thing is still quite high, even the average priced windows laptop 5 years ago is still not that great at keeping up. Not to mention people still running on HDDs as opposed to SDDs or have a HDD somewhere in their system still is very high.
@@ionrage That's a bit of an odd choice. I felt late to the party when I got an SSD 10 years ago. RAM and storage are cheaper than they've ever been. Ryzen was released 6 years ago and Intel woke up with their own mainstream 8 cores the year after. Although the best setup for audio right now is literally a dual xeon system that goes for $100 on ebay at the moment.
@@skorpers which is why i said 5 years ago, because ryzen released not long after around then did the DIY builders really got onto it. SSDs in prebuilts and laptops came mainstream really late into the game.
Considering how many people are rocking 10 year old systems or close to, its really high and consider what the average systems in those had. Just because people make music or master music, doesn't mean they are tech heads at all.
My system alone has 4-5 SSDs along with a Ryzen 5900X, 32GB of fast ram has never been this cheap before even with RGB.
Point is, I am glad the very first point in this video was to address the most likely bottle neck and issues people have, crap computers be it mac or PC.,
0:52 or swap to Linux you will save a lot of money ;)
the best computer... and you have a Mac. You get way more computer for your money if you buy a pc, but for some reason Apple have etched its name into the music business, so even Pro Tools look like shite on pc... but still works great. I have just bought a new pc, and if I should have bought an equivalent Mac, I should have paid triple, even more, the only real alternative being the apple tower, whatever its name is these days, and Apple is not very invested in its towers.
Not saying that Mac's are best by any means! They definitely are pricey, but I love the user experience and Logic Pro so that's why I use them. There are definitely more cost effective options like you said.