Basic home studio for £200?

Phaser

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I've already got 2 active monitor speakers and a computer towards it.

I'm thinking i'l need a new soundcard, mic with stand and popshield, some sort of mixer and all cables.

It will be mainly be used for recording vocals over tracks which we've made in the likes of Reason, Cubase etc. UK HipHop sort of stuff.

Is this possible with a budget of £200? Obviously i'm not expecting top of the range stuff but something entry level will be good.

If people could give recommendations for each piece of equipment it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
you could probably get something like a sure sm58 with the required cable, a cheap mic stand and a sound card but i think your best bet is fleabay.

just make a pop shield out of a pair of tights and a metal coat hanger or something similar if you want 1.
 
As above:

SM57/58 (or since it's for vocals a budget condenser like AKG P100 or Audio Technica AT2020 or Studio Projects B1)

As stated, cheap stand (best to look in a shop for it, I bought mine online and it is really loose. Feel it in the shop if you can). DIY pop-shield is fine providing you can fix it to the stand properly, otherwise they are about £7 from a competitor.

I'd combine the mic preamlifier and soundcard aspect into one unit, such as the Alesis IO2 or Tapco LINK USB or M-Audio MOBILE PRE USB :)
 
Soundcards, I was looking at the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 for around £50.

Had a quick look at the AKG P100 which is £70.

For the mixer, a Tapco MIX 60 is around £45.

That leaves £35 for cables/mic stand.

Would that be a good setup?

Cheers. :)
 
The AKG should be decent. The M-Audio is a decent card but i'd be worried that the preamps in the Tapco might not be the quietest. It should be ok though and the internal card will probably save some hassle :)
 
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