Also consider sa cost:
- Microphone cables and stands.
- Software that you'll use. Reaper is most affordable: free version is full-featured with enough plug-ins, pay $60 for eventual upgrades.
- Monitoring: Either good headphones or speaker monitors. But you can start with what you already have.
Should you want to upgrade your stuff:
- Better headphones or speaker monitors. Or have one of both.
- Interface (e.g., firewire, more inputs)
- Mic: More mics (the kind and number depends on what you need in the future). And more mic cables and stands for the mics.
- Room treatment (so you control recording your room's ambience)
- Room isolation (so you control recording outside noise)
- Hardware/rack gear: Optional na lang. A lot of it, pwedeng daanin sa plug ins.
Budget: bahala na kung ano ang definition para sa iyo ng "affordable" when you want to upgrade. Best to check out online prices. Popular "affordable" brands so far are Samson, Audio Technica, Behringer, MXL, CAD, Edirol, (ano pa ba?)