This is Rachel Lee Walsh. She’s pretty awesome.

This was the first time it occurred to me to snap photos of our studio. Rob likes to have the microphones just so, and you can tell in the sound quality of my final project. If you need a sound engineer in Brooklyn you should hire him and pay him lots of money. He’s worth it.

Rachel and he were scheming to play together, because she noticed his upright base in the corner of our sound booth and found out that he used to play blue grass. She has a country/folk/blues kind of thing going on. I think they’d rock together.

At one point in the interview I say to her, “Oh, you are of my people” which is a weird thing to say, I know, but the way she writes songs is from the perspective of wanting to tell a human story, and this is the way I do my podcast. Her writing is both clever and simple.

This is Rachel’s guitar strap, and I think it’s SO cool. It’s from Kelly Horrigan.

To listen to our interview, go to the interview page at HeyBrooklyn.com or type Hey Brooklyn into iTunes.

Rob found studio space in a professional building. It’s reasonable! Heck! It’s cheap! We are both so excited.

Three apartments are in heavy consideration with different major pros and cons to each of them. I’m thinking about doing a list of pros and cons on a legal pad like they always did in 80′s sitcoms.

Years before I met Rob it was my dream to run a business with my husband one day so we could work together and make our own hours, never worry about loosing our jobs and, eventually, when we were wildly successful, take off to lay on a Mexican beach for a month, just because.

The ideal home business for us came when the newspaper Rob was working for went under and their recording studio, equipment and all, got liquidated into our second bedroom. Our current set-up is fine for now, and it was perfect that we had a place to put it, however, it needs to go into an office building if we are going to be taken seriously as a business. And that’s the goal for the rest of 2009. Everything is connected and we’re open for business, but I want us to be known as THE place to go in the NYC area if you have an audio project you need professional produced (by my <brag>Emmy and Oscar-award husband!</brag>). We’re hoping to find space in DUMBO (the area of Brooklyn right across the water from Manhattan) to be easily accessible to both boroughs.

This is the pipe dream. I don’t know if it’s viable in this current economic climate, but I figure it’s worth putting out there that we currently have a great studio available for recording, and hopefully soon we’ll have a great studio in a professional space available. For now you have to come to our apartment, which is just fine, really, and I promise I’ll make you coffee while your here, or put on the kettle for some tea.