Well, since I have not yet mused since the site opened, I thought I would do some of that. This is Brent1, in case you have not yet figured that out. Whenever I set about to write a blog I always think “Well, gee, what would I want to read about? Pigeons pooping on New Yorkers? The dangers of eating canned dog food? Mosquitoes that grow to 50,000 times their original size and plunge their noses into the earth sucking out all the magma; leaving us floating on a desolate, hollow rock that lacks the crucial mass to maintain orbit and goes hurtling toward the sun while the mosquitoes die in the frozen, airless reaches of space? Hey, that last one was pretty cool, but I don’t know much about it.” Honestly, these are my exact thoughts every time.

Brent2 suggested that perhaps I should write about something audio related. So, I’ve thought about it, and I bet your wondering what we use to record and put our shows together before you noticed the picture off to the side of this paragraph. GLAD you asked. We use Sony Vegas 7. There is also a version 8 available should you wish to try it. Why do we use it you ask?

Well, I still remember the first time I installed Vegas, back in version 4 when it still owned by Sonic Foundry. My first thoughts when I looked at the interface were, “Here it is. This is the software I have always wanted.” It loaded quickly, was completely intuitive, and I no longer had to worry about how to do something, just what I wanted to do. As I learned more, I found it worked great with some of the best plugins in the world, and can really make your mix, be it music or voice, an excellent experience.

Since then, improvements have been made in the area of more effects, and it tends to come with DVD authoring software should you actually want to edit video and put it on DVD. Adding the effects added some weight to the program, but it still runs pretty low (doesn’t use a bunch of processor when it doesn’t need to). Oh, sure, we still use a couple good mics, and a mixer to plug them into that interfaces with the computer and software, but that is another musing.