Good Discussions about what gear you need to start a making hiphop beats

This dicussion took place on the BBS boards at Homerecording.com

I have been able to push my budget to 600 bucks. I am making this a new thread so as to get more attention. What should I get for my basic hip-hop studio?
Thx,
Jibran

My response was this

yo I would suggest on the beat making side to go to your local Guitar center or music store close by you. There you should find all sorts of music equipment and in most cases you can try before you buy. Just go and try them out and see what you like the most there are all sorts of stuff out there.

If you have a computer ,which is possible since you post on here. I would suggest checking out Fruity loops, Acid, Reason, or even cakewalk kinetic. You can pick Acid (entry level form) and Kinetic at your local bestbuy. The easiest of the ones I posted is probably Fruity loops due to it's point and click nature. Just do a search on this topic in the forums and you will find tons of threads that ask this same question.

On the recording side do the same as beat making go to your local Guitar center or music store tons of equipment for recording. I mean to be honest this is where most of my money would go because I dont think with 600 your could get the beat making machine you would need so I would just spend less money on like beat making sortware like I suggested I think Fruity loops is the cheapest from the bunch or maybe Acid or kinetic. I would get a good mic a decent pre amp for your sound card and some good monitors to mix with. Also getting a decent sequencing application like a Sonar, Cubase, cool edit pro or whatever to track all your music. for 600 bucks I think you could pull that off.

This was another response I thought was good from perpetual productions

With your budget and inexperience, I’d suggest Fruity Loops, a decent soundcard with a built in preamp for your mic and something to listen on. Headphones should be fine for now. AKG 240S and Sony MDR7506 are both real popular, $100 or so.

You can make beats in FL, then bring them into ACID Express to record your vocals. Or you can buy the Producer’s Edition of FL Studio, which does audio recording too. Then you won’t need ACID.

FL (regular version)- $100
ACID Express - Free
Headphones - $100
MXL 990 - $60
Edirol UA25 USB 2 x 2 Audio Interface with Dual Preamps - $240

$500 total.

After that, I’d buy some monitors.

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