Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Yes the title is moab, I am well aware of that. That's by design ;)

There are many videos on the topic of budget music production but I feel like a lot of them miss the mark on the "budget" part. Where a few hundred bucks for some people is "pretty budget", there's a large percentage of the world where that's still considered to be a lot of money.

So let's talk real budget. Heck.. if you play your cards right on the software side of things you can get that budget as low as "not spending any money". That's the level of budget we want to hit.

Grab a cup of tea, coffee (or if you are watching at night: wine, beer or a cocktail of choice) and join me on a ride on true budget lane.

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00:00 Intro
02:29 Mac
03:23 PC + Windows
06:24 (Multi) screen setups
11:03 Audio interfaces
16:18 MIDI controllers
19:04 Guitar/bass/misc
21:09 External FX
22:59 Microphones
26:57 Monitoring
30:43 End of hardware
31:23 DAWS
38:29 Free software
49:49 Not free software
54:23 Voltage Modular
55:58 Outro talk
57:04 Outro track