How to Connect Recording Studio Equipment

In a home recording studio, the best equipment in the world is useless if it's not connected properly. Depending on the size of the home recording studio, there might be a dozen or more pieces of equipment which need to be integrated within a single studio environment.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Buy a mixer. The mixer is the key piece to creating a home recording studio environment. The complexity and capability of the mixer should depend upon how many devices need to be connected.

2. Establish the control interface. This is often a computer or a traditional audio control board. Numerous control interface software packages are available. Home recording enthusiasts often record in one medium, such as on audio CD or some multi-channel tape system and mix, and add effects on the computer.

3. Hook up a midi controller device for connecting instruments, such as keyboards and guitars, and for hooking up record players for sampling some tunes from vinyl. The record player phono plug, usually an RCA plug, plugs into the control interface phono input jack.

4. Set up both the control interface and the stereo so that they connect to the mixer. This arrangement allows the home recording studio to be used to access sounds from the computer and the external control interface.

5. Play MP3s and other mixes directly from the computer's audio software. The most popular MP3 players offer many features which are useful for the home recording studio enthusiasts.