Choosing Your First Audio Interface and DAW

Trying to put together your first recording rig or home studio can be overwhelming. With so many components and options, it can be tough to keep it all straight.

You may think that all you need to record at home is a microphone and a song in your heart, but you’d be sorely disappointed to take your sparkly new SM58 out of its box just to realize you don’t have a way to plug it into your computer.

Here’s what you’re going to need to start recording:

• A microphone

• A cable to connect the microphone

• A recording interface

• A computer with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

• Monitors or headphones to listen to your performance

• Acoustic treatment when you realize your bedroom sounds like crap

Let’s start at the beginning.

This is an excerpt from Choosing Your First Audio Interface and DAW, originally published by Reverb. Read the full version here.

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