I chose a podcasting tool – Audacity – which was easy to download and free. It was really easy to use and I had a bit of fun with this task, once I got past my initial trepidation.
As you move the mouse around you get the little pop-up label for the various buttons, so there is no need to guess at functions. I needed to fix my microphone settings before I could start the fun of recording. Quality was pretty good considering that this is a free tool using an inbuilt mono microphone and it didn’t even skip a beat when I sang!
But when I went to save it in MP3 format, I found that I needed to download more software (thank goodness, also free open source software). So apart from hating the sound of my own voice, the tool worked really well. It was easy to use and produced a fairly good recording.
VERDICT – a good do-it-yourself tool for recording lots of things.
