Lifehacker podcast: how to build a home studio for working with sound

You can find the necessary devices for your home studio at the international brand of audio equipment iCON ProAudio. You are just at the start and are looking for an audio interface - it will do iCON CubePro ProDrive III. Includes USB cable and license keys for Bitwig 8-Track, Harrison 32c Vocal Intensity Processor plugin and plug-in kits from Dotec audio, Tracktion and Kilohearts Toolbox, so it can handle any audio tasks.

Choose a microphone - listen to studio models like iCON C1 or iCON C1 Pro. And if you are looking for a professional option, then to iCON Apollo LD1. Budget devices will even pull the recording of vocals and will definitely cope with streams and podcasts. Anti-vibration holder, windscreen and soft bag included will be a nice addition to the purchase. Need monitors - a pair of 90-watt

iCON SX‑5A with a frequency range of 45 Hz - 21 kHz will cost you 26 thousand rubles. If you want something more powerful, consider monitors iCON SX‑8A, each of which will give out up to 180 watts.

For more advanced studios, iCON offers a wide range of MIDI keyboards and controllers to control your DAW software. For example, iCON iKeyboard 4 Mini for 37 keys, sensitive to pressure, weighs a little more than a kilogram: it is convenient to take such a keyboard with you to rehearsals and on trips. And the ability to work offline without a computer will allow you to connect to any instruments: synthesizers, drum machines, samplers.

Also in the range iCON ProAudio there are pop filters, stands and holders, keyboard pedals, and even ready-made budget kits for home studios.

Assemble a studio