$1000-1500 setup studio budget

[kesslerjesus]

Well, if I were you and had 1-1.5k to spend on a new set up I would purchase the following:

1 LDC = Oktava MK 219 modded by Mr Joly - 300 dollars (in the classifieds section right now)

M-audio Profire 2626 8 channel interface with pres - 600 dollars

Which leaves 600 dollars for monitors

But honestly...you will deff benefit from treating your room before upgrading your monitors.

I recently made nine 4' x 2' x 4" rockwool pannels for around 300 dollars.

Use the other 300 for the monitors, unless you want to sell a few of the things you won't use anymore like the bx5's and then look out for a nice pair of monitors. As I think of trying to suggest monitor pairs though, I'm really confused... Event ASP8's are pretty good, Yamaha HS80m's are too, and Mackie hr824s can handle their own pretty well. All can be had slightly used for around 400 dollars.

Best of luck.

[Eric Pederson]

Do you already have the computer you're going to use?

[bjorgvinben]

I wasn't clear enough anymore on my former equipment. I've already sold all my old stuff because it's hard to travel the world with studio baggage in your suitcase...

I'm going to start using my Macbook laptop for myself, but I also have access to a Pc that I could use. I have eyes set on buying myself an iMac or something like that in the future, but in the meantime my Macbook 2.1Ghz, 4Gb Ram has to do.