A room with good acoustics is essential to recording and mixing your music correctly. "Good acoustics" can be defined as getting the   sound   from the speakers to your ears   as   unchanged as possible.   A good home studio room   should be   as   neutral as possible while still having some life to enable you to hear detail (such as stereo positioning) properly.   This ensures that music you   have mixed   and equalised   to   sound good   has the best chance   of   sounding good in other rooms.   Dry Gin   recorded using   a   studio built in   his   apartment.   It is very difficult to record acoustic parts   in a home studio.   Even if   you're lucky enough to have a large, good sounding room to record in,   you will   also need thousands   of   dollars' worth   of microphones, preamps, and   processors   to   achieve optimum sound quality. Because of this, most people use digital machines in their home studios.   If you insist on recording   live sound,   it's   a   better bargain   to   rent a good studio for a few hours. That way you get   acces to a bunch of good equipment and   the ambience of the   room.   Remember,   talent,   energy and ideas   override technology.   If   you   have the technology, use it.   But if you haven't   got   the cash, don't worry.       * * *   Dry Gin   * * *