How to set up your budget home recording studio (part 5)

The list of USB Audio/MIDI interfaces/sound cards under $100

The basic terminology and definitions about Analog and Digital Audio, MIDI and what is the purpose of an Audio/MIDI interface/sound card, has been explained at the previous page. We are now going to explore some interfaces that are currently available on the market and we will group them by the way they connect/communicate and transfer data to and from a PC/Laptop. There are three main types of connections commonly used to communicate with these types of Audio/Video recording devices to the computers and they are USB (Universal Serial Bus), IEEE 1394 (Firewire) and PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect). The first two use serial bus interface standard that connects mainly external devices to the computer, and the last one is used to connect internal hardware devices locally ( ie. sound cards), via parallel bus interface standard. The table below shows some recommendations from USB interfaces range, and starts from the basic, low priced ones to the complex, versatile and more expensive models. As I am currently reviewing some additional models, I will update the list as soon as I have them reviewed, so please visit the page often to be kept up to date. You can also subscribe to my feeds if you'd like to get the automatic notifications whenever the new update is posted.

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Sample music video recorded and edited at my home recording studio "Creative Multimedia Production"


Below is my sample music video that I have recorded and edited entirely at my home multimedia studio set up. My two friends Mirsad Ibisevic and Gordan Halajkijevic helped me with its production. Mirsad is an photographer and videographer and two of us filmed entire video, and Gordan is an guitarist and music producer who played lead and solo guitar in the song. I am the author of the song and I did music/video production and editing.

How to set up your budget home recording studio (part 4)

Audio vs MIDI 

Audio/MIDI sound card with external instrument connector interface

In my previous post, we've talked about minimal PC specs that are required in computer based recording studio setup's. But, before we start exploring various types of Audio/MIDI interfaces and sound cards, I would like to briefly explain its basic terminology and definitions.


Audio is an electrical or other representation of sound within human audible range of frequencies (20Hz to 20.000Hz). Audio can be represented in Analog or Digital form. 
Analog (traditional) audio is a representation of a sound that is analogous to the air pressure waves of the sound. In Analog audio recording, audio signal is converted into electrical energy and stored on a media (vinyl or magnetic tape) by copying down wave patterns of the sound.

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How to set up your budget home recording studio (part 3)

Digital recording studio systems

Cubase 5 - Digital multitrack sound recording and editing software

As described in my previous article, we are living today in the era of a digital technology. The traditional, analog studio recording equipment, although available and still necessary in some applications, became much less popular in general due to the evolution of a newer, more compact and versatile, and relatively cheaper digital sound recording systems. These systems became cheaper and widely available simply because the need for the expensive hardware doesn't exist any more (except for the high end systems), as the digital systems are now controlled electronically by the software, rather than the hardware it self. In home, or so called project studios, although we still require to have some hardware interfaces to be able to physically connect various pieces of studio equipment, instruments etc., in comparison with previous systems, they are minimal.

We are now going to take a look at some very basic computer based audio recording setup.