Whether your home studio is centred around pieces of hardware or software or both, the key word in good studio design is simplicity. You want to be able to be ready to record in less than 5 minutes, and ideally, less than 2 minutes.
| For hardware, leave cables in as much as possible. For example your microphone could always be plugged into your mixer and neatly stored away next to your mixer under a dust cover. Your distorsion pedal might always be connected to your guitar amp, and your guitar cable stored away on top of the amp.Keep things you will need together in the same place. |
For software, make up a list of your favourite VST plugins and create a template in your DAW with them, so one click is all you need to load them all. If you have sufficient USB ports, leave your MIDI controller permanently connected to your computer and let it seat on top of your computer tower.
Once, a friend of mine who wanted to make me listen to his latest recording took around 8 minutes fiddling with the cables between his digital hardware recorder, his hi-fi amp and his speakers. That was enough to distract me from the task at hand, eg giving a critique of his recording, so i can imagine how it would distract him from recording and monitoring his music!
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