If you are the kind of music amateur that wants to create awesome tunes and even maybe upload them into the web for sharing them with friends and fans, these music studio gadgets are a great choice for the music lover enthusiast.
MicroPod
These are fun and colorful speakers. They have top quality components, including a kevlar bass/midrange unit and a soft dome tweeter with super extra durable finish. Great unconventional design and plenty of colors available.
Blue Yeti Microphone
This is the fist USB microphone combining 24 bit/192 kHz digital recording resolution with analog XLR output. We like that the Blue Yeti can capture up to 4 times the resolution of a regular CD. Yo can also get a built in headphone amplifiers for zero latency monitoring with direct controls for headphone volume, pattern selection, mute and microphone gain.
M-Audio MobilePre
This is an USB pre-amp with a built-in audio interface that's designed for laptop recording such as sampling and field work. It has a variety of inputs and microphone inputs. It's like having a recording studio in a very small package.
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Comments (4)
horrible.
For a so-called "guide" to a cheap music studio, you never mention any prices for the items; I know they vary depending on location, but a range or starting price would have been useful.
Next, the speakers... are we supposed to monitor our sound using an iPod and "fun and colorful" speakers? How about something more useful, like KRK Rokit 5 or M-Audio DSM1?
OK, both the Blue Yeti and M-Audio MobilePre USB are decent items, but are you aware they don't actually connect together? The pre-amp of the M-Audio won't be utilized by a USB mike.
Joe, this is not an instant studio, this is a collection of stuff you found that had white backgrounds and therefore works with the Unplggd theme. Agroman called this post horrible, but I think it goes beyond that to misleading and useless.
On the cheap? Are you serious? That Scandyna speaker system is over $600!
Those speakers are expensive