If you had $900 to spend..

[ryansanders]

If you guys were starting out in the home-recording world, and had $900 to spend. What would you guys buy and why? Would you lean more toward gear or maybe making the room sound better?

 

[Massive Master]

All the gear in the world is worth a bowl of warm sinus fluid if you can't hear it with reasonable accuracy. Monitoring & room treatment (no, not throwing foam all over the walls) is paramount.

 

[ryansanders]

Will $900 treat a room decently? Talking about a small room.. smaller than a normal bedroom.

 

[JMarcomb]

if books are considered gear.. id say books

 

[Massive Master]

Will $900 treat a room decently? Talking about a small room.. smaller than a normal bedroom.

You could probably put 4" GIK traps (244's?) 8' high in all four corners for under $600. A good start to just about *any* room.

 

[danny.guitar]

Assuming my guitar was already good...

I'd treat my entire, small room. And get one good microphone. I'd probably try to spend about $400 on room treatment and the other $500 on a microphone, or maybe the other way around.

I'd try to treat it more for tracking than mixing, even though both are important. I'm not sure why, but I never have any problems with bass while mixing or getting my songs to translate to other systems. Maybe I'm just lucky.