For those who hate to read, the main points:
Just starting
$4-5k budget
Transforming my basement
Style: Acoustic guitar, vocals, some electric
Information on setting up acoustics for a room
Looking for: a nice 'real' sound
Estimated costs / suggestions: mixers, compressors, mics, the works

alright...you guys have never failed me before with your acoustical abilities. So here is what I am dealing with. my project studio is in my basement. The isolation room - is all concrete but there are a few spots where pipes come through the concrete and there are spaces that allow sound to travel from the laundry room in to the iso room.

Do you want to help me build up a studio? (I wanna steal your thougth!)

Rigth now i am thinking of building up a guitar rack, but i dont have a clue what to get, i currently have a pod xt live but it sounds like crap. should I run the rack system through the amp and then record with a mic or is the rack system just DI?

Hello...I am new to this forum and have a few questions. My band decided to use my basement as a studio...to combat spending a lot of money on studio time. I know when we recorded our first album we were able to get some good deals but still ended up paying around 10,000 for the complete project. We were pretty busy this fall and were able to purchase the following:

Thougth you could perhaps assist me, what i currently have is a laptop, mlx mic, m box, electric kit, drumkit from hell sample and a guitar of course.

What i need now is for you good people to tell me what equipment i need to achieve this kind of sound:

http://www.myspace.com/tesseract

what i already had in mind was:

I'm in the beginning (planning) stages of building a basement recording studio and was wondering on about how much power would be needed to run a small studio. I know its a very vague question but i am just looking for an estimate.

Thanks,
Will S.

Our recording process has now began, and we'd like the drums to sound less "basement". We're doing a wieird kind of metal.

If someone could give me essential tips to make it sound better and more pro, it would be great. How to eq, which reverb and other effects?

This evening I had the pleasure of dinner with a good family friend. Andy is a great musician and has been writing and recording his own music for some time. It is a hobby for him, but one he devotes a lot of time and energy to (not to mention the fact that he is an amazing song writer). He's been working on a new CD and I had the pleasure of hearing some of his work.

I've Ben Recording Music For about 3 Years On Cool Edit PRo With my computer, Getting More Serious With it and Want to Build a Studio For myself In House.. Is a 3 thousand Dollar Budget Enough to Build a Decent Studio With Good Quality? .. And If So Could Sum1 Please Take the Time to List Hardware/Equitment Needed..Is a Computer a Must For The Studio ?.. Any inofrmation would Be Aprreciated..