I’ve seen so many people spend a ton of money, basically their life savings, on a home studio. In some cases, they are right to do so. They use the studio to make wonderful music and they make the money that they spent on it back pretty quickly. In most cases, though, getting your own studio is premature.

A lot of the people who get a studio don’t know anything about music theory. They can’t play any instruments and can’t actually make good music. It’s just a really expensive hobby. One of the most common things I’ve seen, is people getting their own studio and all of the voice recording tools money can buy. They are completely set up to record their own album, with them as the singer. But there’s one problem. They can’t sing.

Before you get yourself a home studio, you need to visit the site like Musicaroo.com. They can teach you to sing better and improve your voice. Go through all of the exercises and practice them daily until you sound more like a professional singer. You can become a good singer, but you need to work on it. And I suggest that you work on improving your singing voice before you go out and spend money on a home studio.

If you’re too lazy to go check out music Musicaroo and go through their exercises to help you improve your voice, I can give you a quick rundown of the voice lessons here.

Learn to sing better before splurging on a full studio.

The first thing you need to work on is your posture. Posture has a huge impact on singing voice. When you slouch, it affects your breathing, which means you cannot sing anywhere near your real abilities. You need to practice standing up straight. Practice this every day. And since you’re also practicing your singing every day, practice them together. Always stand up straight when you sing.

You might be thinking you could sit up straight. You can, but it is not as easy to get the full breath as it is when you’re standing. For that reason, I suggest you always sing standing to begin with. Perfect your posture and your singing while you’re standing, then you can move on to doing it while sitting down.

After standing straight and having a good posture, you need to work on your head, mouth and tongue position. Your head needs to be level. A lot of beginning singers tend to look up, especially when they are singing high notes. Make sure not to do this.

Your mouth needs to be open wider than feels natural, especially for vowels. This is the only way to get the proper airflow. Your tongue must be pointing forward in your mouth. Many people keep their tongue toward the back of the mouth, but in that position, it impacts the airflow and you need proper airflow to be able to sing.

That brings us to the next point. You need to learn how to breathe correctly if you’re going to be a better singer. You have to breathe from your lower abdomen. Many call this diaphragm breathing although the term is a bit incorrect. If you only breathe into your chest, you will not get enough air. You need to practice breathing from your diaphragm or your lower abdomen.

You can practice by lying down on the ground with a book on your lower abdomen. As you breathe in, you should be raising the book and as you breathe out, you should be lowering it. If you are not, keep practicing. Once you have the breathing down without singing, make sure to breathe correctly while you are singing. This will be very difficult at first, but keep practicing until you get used to it. Nothing will improve your singing more than learning how to breathe correctly.

Once you have these basics down, then you can move on to more advanced exercises. Exercises that will improve your vocal range and that will have you really hitting those high notes that you couldn’t sing before. This opens up a whole new world of songs to you. Suddenly songs that weren’t in your range before are in your range now. And you should never sing songs out of your range, since doing so can damage your voice.

So head on over to Musicaroo and practice your singing until you are a much better singer than you are now. You can learn how to sing better, no matter how bad you are today. You just need to do it. Now get to work.

If you ask 100 people what equipment belongs in a home recording studio, you’ll get 100 different answers. Some pieces of equipment everyone can agree on.

You definitely need a sound mixer in your studio. You also want speakers and at least one microphone. A good keyboard is also essential, so you can use it to mimic various instruments and also to lay down beats. Speaking of instruments, it could never hurt to have a couple of those too.

And, of course, a good coffee machine. Even better, a really good espresso machine. Because caffeinated artists are happy artists. And if that caffeine came from a really good cup of coffee or espresso made with a high quality coffee maker, so much the better.

But what about turntables? Does a record player bring anything to the table? Yes, it does. Obviously, you can use it to play samples from vinyl records. Of course you can also play digital samples or, as mentioned above, use a keyboard or various instruments. But sometimes you want to have a record player for that.

But what a turntable really gives you is the ability to scratch. You might want to have some scratch examples in your music and a turntable allows you to do that. There are also a lot of records that you might not find digitally or on another medium. Having a way to play those vinyl records can always be useful.

Beyond that, you can just use your record player to play music. Often when you’re recording in the studio, there are a lot of breaks where you are not actually doing any recording. You’re talking and discussing or maybe just eating lunch. It is nice during those times to have some music.

Of course you could just play the music any other way. I mean, come on, your in an actual recording studio. But there is just something special about music played on a vinyl record player. It just feels more like real music for some reason. If you don’t have a record player you can’t enjoy that. But if you do have one, it will add a lot of atmosphere to your studio and, I believe, it will do a lot to foster creativity in anyone working there.

The Best Record Players

So now that you’ve decided you want a record player, what is the best kind? These days there are so many different ones that it can be hard to choose. Just look at the samples on this site: http://toprecordplayers.com.

The biggest difference between them is in quality and in the features. There are a lot of record players that have tons of features. They play CDs, they play radio, they can record to or from the digital format and many of them have internal speakers.

While these models are very multi-functional, even the more expensive ones are generally not that great in terms of sound quality. There are simply too many features that the developers focused on. If they had focused on only one thing, they would generally do that one thing better. It is for this reason that one of these all-in-one units is not preferable. Plus, you’re in a recording studio, so do you really need speakers on a record player? No, you don’t. You could just plug it into your already existing system it will sound much better.

For that reason, I suggest getting a turntable with very close to no features whatsoever. Get one that simply plays records and perhaps one that allows you to scratch. Beyond that it doesn’t need to do much.

Now you do want to get a pretty high-quality one, but you don’t have to spend a ton of money for this. Obviously there are some very expensive ones that are incredible, but a simple one from Audio Technica will suffice for your purposes here. The cheapest one cost less than $100 and the next step up cost under 300. I would get the one under 300. It will give you an incredible sound quality and has a ton of features that you might find useful. It is probably the best value record player money can get you.

If you really want to go expensive, then you could spend several thousand dollars. You will get a much better sound quality, but these record players are not really meant to scratch. For that you would be better off with the cheaper Audio Technica turntable. That would be my choice for a home recording studio, if I ever have enough money to open up my dream studio.