I'm trying to start a recording studio with my brother.

Question

Ok I have a place to do it, I just need to find out how to get equipment recording wise. this has been on my mind for a long time and if you have anything let me know. this is so important to me and I love music I just want to know what to produce it with but cheap.

Answer 1

mic, sound speakers, all the things u use like drums guitar. hope this helps

Answer 2

Samash (Samash.com) has a great variety of recording instruments.

Try Ebay.com, you may find good deals.

Answer 3

Greetings,

This isn't something you should jump into lightly.  A recording studio isn't a place with a bunch of random gear in it but a complex integrated system.

The best equipment in the world wont do you a bit of good unless it goes into a very specifically designed room.  Room design is an art, too, and if you do not professionally design your space then your mixes will never turn out right - ever.  

The same is true for whatever rooms you record in.  They get a different design, construction and treatment than the control/mixing room.  There are, literally, entire books about this stuff.  

Room design is only the first part of the system.  Next is communications.  How do microphones go from being in front of someone's mouth to becoming a digital signal in your DAW?  How does that signal end up coming out of your monitors, headphones, or headphone amp in the recording room?  How do various pieces of gear connect to one another? How do they move in and out of the signal chain?  I had to use specialized software to design my communications system then construct all the cables by hand.

You still have software/hardware integration, master clock, and a playback system to design.

Now the sad part.  

Cheap doesn't work.  Not in price, not in design.  Why would you spend tens of thousands of dollars designing your room and thousands more on your communications system only to put cheap worthless gear in the space?  

You'll have to pony up for the quality stuff and that can be tricky too because, in my opinion, only about 1 in 10 products offered to the public are worth anything.  How will you know which products to purchase?  Are you gonna trust the teenage salesperson?  Are you gonna trust some magazine?  Again, studios are complex systems and the wrong piece of gear can render the system useless.

MY ADVICE:

If you really want to learn about recording then I would suggest actually working in a recording studio before starting one yourself.  Learn about the equipment that is fairly standard in all studios.  Learn how these systems work and how professional engineers use them.

It wont be easy and you'll need a skill that you can use to barter to get in the door.  I would suggest starting with soldering and cable construction.  Learn to build your own XLR, TRS, DSUB, 1/4" cables and learn to make cables that can go from one style to another.  You'll have to learn to do this anyway.  We actually budgeted several thousand dollars towards a work bench with a soldering station, heat gun, glue gun, multimeter, oscilloscope, etc so we could make basic repairs and the cables that we need.  I've saved thousands by building my own power supplies, power conditioners, "lunchbox", cable harnesses, etc.  Again, knowing this stuff is crucial to a studio so you might as well start now and trade that knowledge for an internship.

A little studio can easily cost as much as a house so do your research, learn a skill you can use to barter for an internship, get your budget together and really work on your business plan.

Good Luck