The 5 MOST Important Home Studio Upgrades 

What is the next thing you are going to upgrade in your home studio ?

If you’re on a tight budget I would pick headphones over speakers + acoustic treatment. Especially if you’re producing electronic music. Get the best headphones in your budget and a good dac.

Over the last month I was able to finally make some upgrades here. Most of it is included in the video and the rest I don't have to worry about just yet (microphone and audio interface are pretty good for what I'm making at the moment). So it would be nice to have a part 2, where we go into what's next. Not necessarily on what to buy, but, once we have all these fundamental bits in place, where to go. Or how to find out what is bottlenecking our productivity.

HD 600s from Sennheiser has been a neutral studio headphone standard for years for a reason, they are neutral with great resolution and vocal intimacy.

Awesome tips LEWITT!

Room is always first no matter what. Phone audio will sound better than an ideal chain if you are comparing a treated room to a bare room. Audio interface is next. Although this isn't a big deal. UMC202HD / UMC204HD will be more than enough. You want to pick a microphone that isn't terrible. CAD D32 or GXL2200 if you have a bit of money, however you can make a Marantz or Behringer mic work. The Rode NT1 or Lewitt 540s won't help you unless your room is absolutely (and I mean absolutely) silent and isolated from not only outside, but your own electronics and fan noise. Get a computer with passive cooling, biggest reduction in noise you will find in the average bedroom studio.

Maybe...the microphone? :-). Looking forward to hearing what you say!

This new information agrees with my previously-held beliefs, so it MUST be correct! LOL! As it turns out, my landlord sold the house I had been renting for twenty years, and my dream of setting up a home studio was only realized a few months before I had to sell everything and move out. It was great while it lasted, though, and I have no regrets for spending so much money and effort to improve the room sound with acoustic treatment. As for microphones (and interface), since one of the goals of my studio setup was to be able to record live drums, I had to make some compromises (quantity vs. quality). If I had known what I know now from the beginning I probably would have had a vastly different selection of mics, but I guess the point is moot because, like I said, I ended up selling everything before I got much of a chance to use it anyway.

Whatcha waiting for to break into the Nigerian market? The Connect 6 was my dream come true when it launched (just Bluetooth left 😁), your mics are lovely (in reviews I trust at least)... Make una enter 9ja market abeg 🙏

My upgrade will be lct440 pure -> Pure tube, when you give me a nice discount 😉

Great information and thanks for sharing. I'd love for you to talk about which Lewitt mic could do well in a PA setting for a live podcast Q&A session. (gentle suggestion: I found "let's get real" phrase repetition became tiresome.)

… get ozon izotope - the full version, and a good reverb like sir3, Berlin Studio and you will experience an upgrade in your sound like no other… ozon lets your tbones sound actually good. ..

0:52 or swap to Linux you will save a lot of money ;)

Thank you for addressing the computer side of things, computers now compared to 5 years ago between PC and Mac have gone through insane advancements and people really should upgrade from that 10 year old PC and their complaints even minor ones will go away.

the best computer... and you have a Mac. You get way more computer for your money if you buy a pc, but for some reason Apple have etched its name into the music business, so even Pro Tools look like shite on pc... but still works great. I have just bought a new pc, and if I should have bought an equivalent Mac, I should have paid triple, even more, the only real alternative being the apple tower, whatever its name is these days, and Apple is not very invested in its towers.