Audio Interface - buying

[Oogei]

Need to know a budget but I'll try and guide you a bit with out knowing one.

First of all if you are planning on tracking your guitar, you need to be more specific in which way you were thinking about doing so. The best way to track it is obviously a decent interface with a good mic-pre and record directly into the mic. Then of course you can add your post processing in your daw. If you want to record a dry signal to apply internal audio effects that comes with your DAW? i think you could just get a 1/4" audio to USB to do that.

Audio interfaces for music production can get quite expensive, but if you are just starting out I would try to stick in the $300 range so you have something decent. The most important part of any studio setup is honestly the interface,speakers,room and daw you use. Good news for you is most DAW's come with a free trial.

Here's an idea: If I were to start from nothing again and I was a beginner I would go with an

Interface:Apogee Duet (used) prollys around $200-300
Workstation: 2009 Mac Pro: $400-700
Speakers: Dynaudio BM5A Mk1 (used) ( maybe $400 for both?)
DAW: Logic Pro X, best bang for your buck to make professional music.


A lot of your studio setup and what you buy really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you aren't tracking 10 instruments at once a simple interface with not many inputs is good because you get good converters, if you are tracking a ton of shit at once or want to but still want to be on small budget i would still suggest the duet and get a with inputs to sum it all together