Wow, that is exactly what i needed to hear/know at this point of the thread/my life lol. !!
I am close to deciding which MIDI interface vs price i shall get first along with a 4 way audio patch bay from Behringer.
Its finally going to be a studio official/a space of great pride rather than a...
Hey np Nola, its all good.
For example, say i want to say i want to use a midi keyboard to control Absynth + use the pads(drum pads, Akai) on the keyboard to control a little drum machine.
But i also want to be able to pick up my MIDI Bass guitar and use both a hardware and software sources...
Sound proofing is barely underway because of the scope of it... im in a unfinished portion of a basement that is 35feetx35feet+ anothr 25 or so behind a door/wall(a finished room). Ill have to show pics.
Foam seems like such an expensive nightmare, but i plan to use some in select spots.
THUS...
(Yeah sorry for verbose posts, however all your simple advice has lifted a fog of anxious confusion! Much thanks all.)
Great replies. Right on to for the most part. i was understandably misunderstood a bit(I never meant to imply gear can substitute for brain power).
Fear of colouring the sound...
Shortened Gear List of things i need to be all connected together via(mixer? midi routing box? a midi clock coming from a secondary computer from different midi out/thru stuff?)
Bass Guitar DI/Mics/ETC
Bass Pod Rackmount
MIDI Bass w/ Axon 500 rack unit and Graphtech Piezo pickups
Two Akai MIDI...
(I feel like i had a better post in the OP but i spent so long on it i got logged out and im adding details in additonal posts bc i am still so frustrated i lost an hour long "perfect" post)
this is in a 6000 sq ft basement btw. I made a panarama i cant get off my ipad unfortunately.
Ive gone...
I'm not new to recording but I'm an amateur for sure. I have way too many cool toys and not enough of the basics.
I bought a big mixer on the cheap that turned out to be more broken than I could fix. I think not having a great mixer while having tons of hard n software not really connected at...