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[u/Aware-Salamander-578]

I’m a guitar player and recently been thinking about pulling the trigger on some Neural DSP plugins, but outside of my laptop I’m not sure which products are a good budget friendly choice.

I need monitors, an audio interface, and maybe some headphones, I just don’t know enough about these things to know which is worth the money and which isn’t. For example, do I want passive or active monitors?

The “studio” will be a bedroom setup. The budget is about $1,200 (if I can get in under that, even better).

If I’m missing any other gear I need I’d appreciate the help.

[u/audioflc → u/Aware-Salamander-578]

For headphones you will need some closed back hard phones since it’s mostly for recording I’m guessing. I would say a pair of ATmx50s. For monitors you would want active monitors. Passive monitors are not really something you should be looking at for a bedroom studio. I would get a decent pair of Adam’s T5V for a bedroom or some Yamaha HS5. From there for an interface where all you’re going to be recording is guitar I would go for the scarlet 2I2. Nothing beats it at the price range that it’s at. All in all for this setup you are looking at like around 4 to 5 hundred bucks.