Question for you audio gurus

musicvid10 wrote on 12/2/2007, 7:31 PM
OK, I have succumbed to the 21st Century. I upgraded to Vegas 8, Win XP Pro, and even found that I could still open my Vegas 2 projects! I am especially grateful for multicamera support, in fact am abandoning some previous projects in favor of this approach.

My question: With all of the enhanced audio capabilities with Vegas 8, should I just keep my SoundForge 6, or upgrade it for $150? It looks like I can learn to do most of my audio editing in Vegas 8, and keep SF6 as-is, but is there anything I'm missing by not upgrading??

Many thanks for your impressions.

Thanks & hope to be around more often,
musicvid

Comments

TorS wrote on 12/2/2007, 10:17 PM
I had SF6 for a long time - skipped SF7 - and was very happy with it.

If you make sloppy or halfhearted audio recordings in the first place, like you don't bother to get the mic close to the source and you don't check locations for their sound qualities, you may need the latest SF to make your recordings useable. If that is at all possible.
But if you always try to make the most and the very best out of every audio recording you make, you will want the latest SF so as to not degrade your recordings in the post.
Get SF9.
Tor
farss wrote on 12/3/2007, 12:32 AM
To be frank I've not found anything in SF9 that I've needed compared to SF7. I didn't get SF6 so maybe there was a big step up from 6 to 7?
My one annoyance with SF9 is it's taken a long while to get it right. I'm not a heavy user of SF but I got caught out with the bugs within minutes of using it.

Bob.
deusx wrote on 12/3/2007, 1:11 AM
>>>To be frank I've not found anything in SF9 that I've needed compared to SF7. <<<

Noise reduction plug-in.

I believe that was added to version 9, and before that it used to cost just as much as SF upgrades. So, if he doesn't have that, that may be a reason. But, it depends on what you use it for.
farss wrote on 12/3/2007, 1:32 AM
Good point, I got NR2 and CDA as freebies when I bought SF7 so I'd assumed he already had them. I guess the iZotopes plugs that come with SF9 make it a better deal too.

Bob.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/3/2007, 9:08 AM
Good point, the NR plugin might be worth the upgrade. I normally do a lot of that work manually in SF6 with my field recordings, but it is quite time-intensive and I don't always get it just right. Thx for the replies. BTW, i'm having fun rediscovering Vegas. I'm sure it will be some time before I learn all of its capabilities.