Q&A for How to Build a Home Studio for Computer Based Music Recording

If you are talking about the back track and sound, then you should it as you would any other mic, but position it next to the relevant music source (e.g. drum kit, guitar, etc.). A dynamic wired mic is best for this.

You can use Fl studio or Cubase, but you're going to need headsets to record your voice.

You can use almost any computer that has a good sound card and a good processor. Apples can be preferable because they have all the following requirements, but you can use other computers that are used for gaming.

When you log your mic into a mixer, you can adjust the level control to make to sound more echoed and change the effect. You can also change the tone of the sound from the mic on the mixer. The mic should be plugged into the mixer at a socket on the top. Level control is a knob at the very bottom of that column.

It depends what you play on the instruments. If you add similar (but not the same) notes on each instrument, it often sounds better.

You could, but it isn't good to use a radio mic, as you may get interference.

It's going to depend entirely on what you want to include in your home studio. The total cost could be anywhere from $1500 to tens of thousands of dollars. Check online resources like Amazon and eBay to find cheap equipment.

Fl studio comes with Edison; use it. Ensure that your mic is connected, select a track and input Edison into it, and record.

A suitable microphone would be a dynamic Microphone. A wired mic would work just fine for this. There are many makes, but the best are Carol, Shure and AKG. It's good to spend money on a microphone; if they are too cheap they may not be as good of quality. A reasonable price for a wired dynamic mic is £20-35. With a wired mic there will be no interference and for just starting out, do the job in hand. They can be plugged into the relevant socket on a mixer. Carol mics produce great sound for talking and singing. Some people prefer wired mics instead of radio mics.

To build a basic home recording studio, you'll need a computer so you can set up a Digital Audio Workstation. You'll also need microphones, mixers, instruments, cables to connect to your computer. You'll also need DJ or mixing software on your computer so you can master the recordings and tracks. It may be helpful for you to have a basic midi keyboard to come up with beats.

A few basic digital audio workstation, or DAW, programs that you can learn are Garageband and Acoustica Mixcraft. They're limited in what they can do, but they're easy to learn without much practice. You can also learn how to use FL Studio or Adobe Pro Tools using the tutorials that come with the programs.

There are a couple of digital audio workstations that you can download and use for free. Garageband comes already installed on Mac computers. Audacity and Cakewalk are free downloads and have a lot of functionality you can use for your home studio. Visit their websites to download the free DAW programs.

You'll need to refer to your DAW's documentation. FL Studio, through the included ZGameEditor Visualizer plugin allows for rendering videos with visualization, which you can then upload directly to YouTube. For other DAWs, you will need to use video editing software to splice it into a video file, as YouTube does not support uploading audio.

You don't really need any special equipment. Just a DAW and small USB MIDI keyboard would be fine for basic music production.

Not if you know what to look for. The most expensive bits could be headphones/speakers, the DAW you decide to use, and MIDI controllers. Even then, there definitely are affordable options out there.