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Your home music studio may take many forms: a band's practice space, a bedroom with an electric guitar, or a DJ setup. Something is virtually certain, though: you will need a microphone.
The mic may be the bedrock of the house recording studio: obtaining a good sound in makes it easier to obtain a good sound out. To that particular end there are hundreds of mic models out there, in the high-end Neumann ribbon mic to the midrange AKG and Audio-Technica towards the budget Peavey. Just to examine them could make your brain hurt-and that's before you test each one.
Eventually you will need at least very staid microphones: perhaps one to best record your voice, another that sounds better than others together with your instrument of preference, or something like that you are able to plug directly into your laptop or iPhone for field recording. To start, however, you should make it simple, and fortunately there's one mic that has turned out to be probably the most versatile for the money for many years: the Shure SM57. It's the one piece of affordable home recording equipment that's also used almost universally through the biggest names in music.
Just Google for that famous users of the SM57 and you will observe that from multimillion-selling artists to the podium from the highest office in the land, it's used almost everywhere. It may mic snare drums and toms, as well as bass cabinets. Plus it's built like a tank: mine has probably existed for 40 years, I acquired it from someone a great decade ago, it has been dropped a reasonable share, and it still sounds much better than a number of my more expensive mics.
An SM57 will cost you under $100 new and $70-75 used, therefore it is as cost-effective as many cheap-sounding mics. The one little bit of advice I'll give you if you have a little more funds are to be on the lookout for a vintage SM57 "Unidyne III" model, which sounds better still compared to modern version. I have seen them for sale for around $150.
Other mics have claimed to mimic or perhaps enhance the SM57, such as the Audix i5. A lot of home recording enthusiasts swear by the Audix, and it runs about the same price because the Shure so you may want to try it out. However the Shure SM57 has stood the test of your time, which means you can't fail using it as a key component of your house music studio.
Michael is the author from the blog Home Music Studio, that provides advice and product recommendations for home recording equipment, as well as tips and techniques. He's been recording his music in your own home for 2 decades, and is constantly on the learn new things every day.