Creating a studio

01 The likelihood is that setting up a space for music making could end up costing a fortune… if you do it properly. So the first question you should, of course, ask yourself is: do you absolutely need to? Many people are quite happy making music on a laptop or tablet, just using headphones as speakers and they get perfectly decent results, and they are not confined to doing their hobby in one place – the bus, train and bathroom* can be their recording