Hello everyone,

I'm a poor university student so I haven't really bought any gear but I do collect records as a start. I want to buy the right gear the first time so I don't have to waste money. Here is how I envision my Hip-Hop bedroom studio to be so please give me any feedback.

Equipment:
1. SP-404
2. M-Audio 2496 and Home Computer
3. Vestax Handy Trax or PT-01 (I need to find out which one sounds better)
4. Izotope Mastering Plugin
5. Audacity (Hopefully Izotope works in this program)

I would make my beats in the SP and get them sounding good, then I would 2-track it out into Audacity. Then I'd send it to my buddy who would lay a vocal down and send me it back. Then I would combine the beat and vocal into a 2-track and master it with Izotope.

I think this would be the best and cheapest way to get some knockin beats.

that should work fine.. And i think audacity can handle any VST, VSTi or DX plugins.

thats sounds very similar to what I do

Better than my setup, you ain't that broke if you can buy that stuff.

Well I definitely won't be buying all that stuff at once. I'll be out of school in two years so I can buy an occasional item when the money presents itself.

my recording process

1. insert water pipe into talkhole
2. lather rinse repeat
3. hit record
4. amuse myself aurally
5. 15 min cursing when i realize nothing recorded
6. repack bowlage
7. hit record
8. jam
9. 1 hour swearing when i realize the levels were set wrong
10. play some bullshit that immediately gets recorded, post, let you guys know, wait for royalty checks to roll in

This is like my mantra for life. This is going in as one of my favorite posts on this board ever, seeing as I don't really come here to learn what I already discovered about my sp-303 I just like the peoples a lot.

Izotope Ozone is ,in fact, an excellant purchase.