This article is for those who believe that building a recording studio at home is better than recording in a professional studio. It will show you exactly what a top-quality recording studio brings to the table. Then, you can decide if you can re-produce similar quality at home.

In terms of location, any professional recording studio worth its salt will be located in its own specific building, far away from distractions. Can you guarantee this with a home recording studio? A proper studio will be completely soundproofed, and, will contain several rooms. Even if you can afford to dedicate a room to sound recording, and also to soundproof it, it’s likely that is all you can manage.

A professional recording studio will have anything up to three main rooms for you to record in, as well as a control room manned by a sound engineer with many years experience. On top of this, there will be isolation rooms where you can single out your vocalist or the instruments. There will usually be a specific room for their array of machinery, so as to not affect the sound recording. They will also possess a comfortable lounge for musicians and their guests to relax in. The average person with a home recording studio will only have one room, with no dedicated control room or experienced sound engineer.

Then you have the equipment problem. While, most musicians will always bring their own equipment, people (especially musicians) have a tendency to be forgetful! As a result, all professional recording studios have a multitude of extra instruments lying around for such occasions. They will have an assortment of electric and acoustic guitars and drum kits, as well as more hard to come by equipment such as saxophones and even pianos. Can anyone who does manage to build their own recording studio come near that level of equipment? A good studio will also have an array of digital computer equipment, the best of which will cost thousands of pounds which no home studio could possibly afford.

While there is a certain thrill involved in building your own recording studio, in most cases it is not feasible, and even when it is, the quality of recording doesn’t come close to matching that achieved at a professional recording studio. This is simply because these recording studios have the absolute best of everything. Their job is to cater for the world’s finest musicians, and no one else can compete with that.