A home studio for rap music

i was gonna build 4 dummy walls (plywood covered with Studiofoam)
a laptop connected to
M-Audio MobilePre USB connected to
MXL MXL990 Condenser Mic with Shockmount and stand
Nady QH560 Deluxe Studio Headphones


with the programs reason 3.0,cool edit pro 2.5 and acidpro 4.0

is there anything else i should purchase or somehting i should change im 16 trying to do something with this so i have a low budget n hopefully get newer and better things as time progresses....

thank you,
Gabe

1. forget about the walls and foam.

2. get some speakers rather than headphones.

3. get a big PC you can upgrade easily rather than a laptop


Work with that and see how you go on.
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Recording Studio Suntans

those aren't bad programs to get your feet wet , and for the pc you can get most of them free of charge, but he's right u should be buying monitors and headphones.. building gobo's or studio baffles around your work space is not a entirely bad idea except your making the sound too dead .. you need a healthy mix of live and dead end in your mix ... should be dead and foamed in the front (be hind your monitors ) also to the left and right of yourself and monitors and little foam in tha rear of your room..jus put a nice bass trap back there or sumthing ... in my opinon u should start using a prgram called steinburg Nuendo, run that with rewire once your comfortable with reason .. also buy a usb midi controller .. it's a keyboard that is used asa midi control surfice for your virtual snyths .. aight take care good luck