Hi, and welcome!

Budget for the monitors?

What type of music/speech material do you intend to be recording and mixing?

What size of room will you be mixing in? What furnishings and floor coverings?

I do mostly country/rock type music. My space is a 20'x20' that I have insulated with 2" thick styrofoam sheets then standered insulation and sheet rock walls and ceiling. I also have diffuser tiles ordered for the walls. Floor is concrete with just a indoor/outdoor carpet laid. Originally it was converted for a rehearsal space but not necessarily recording.
Right now I'm literally learning the machine as I go. I've got the manual and pretty detailed video. I understand recording is as much a art as playing guitar and right now I'm in the "Smoke on the Water" phase lol. So I guess budget would be 150 to 200 so I can start recording and be able to at least listen to what I've done and start learning the rest. Sorry for the long answer and any help/advice would be great

terry Cooperz hi Terry, I would highly recommend something like the KRK Rockit 5 gen3 for that sort of price. You’ll pickup a pair second hand on eBay easily. Plenty of punch and enough range to get going. And they’ll serve you as seconds down the track.

I use them for my keyboard rig in studio.

Tony

Makzimia, post: 465295, member: 48344 wrote: I would highly recommend something like the KRK Rockit 5 gen3 for that sort of price.

they're practically the new NS10 as an industry standard. you see the KRK Rockets in almost all studios these days.

Terry Cooperz, post: 465292, member: 52034 wrote: My space is a 20'x20'

how high is the ceiling?

Kurt Foster, post: 465297, member: 7836 wrote: they're practically the new NS10 as an industry standard. you see the KRK Rockets in almost all studios these days.

how high is the ceiling?

8'

I will check um out then and get a set headed this way. Thanks for the help and I'm sure once I actually start doing some recording I'll have plenty of questions, lol. I've been told the D1600 is a complicated machine to use so I guess we'll see

terry Cooperz I used to record with a Roland VS880 and a VS1880 for a number of years. Take your time, start with the basics. Read the manual, watch videos on youtube. You'll be surprised how quickly you'll pick it up the more you use it.