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In the Thread: Recording/Playback software

Post Subject: Free stuffPosted by jp on: 4/9/2009

While waiting for my wavelab to arrive, I tried a number of free recording/playback software and each one sounded awful and sometimes created very strange results. One program made the music sound like it was recorded underwater...

But one free program called audacity actually seems to be very promising. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. Its an open source software.
Its very straightforward and doesnt overwhelm you with all those unneeded plugin options. Seems like the emphasis is on simple record and play. The record and play buttons are nice and big and its not buried somewhere in the toolbar. Most importantly, the recording quality is quite good! As for the other functions I dont know. I havent tried editing the files and resaving them as well as downsampling

Caveats- I didnt try recording and comparing it to a live broadcast (this saturday). I also havent figured out how to optimize everything on the outboard AD and DA as its been a day since I had things up and running.

...well after playing with all the settings, figuring out the functions on the ad/da it looks like this program is not good as the result sounds compressed and veiled.

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