How to Do: Audio Editing

If you want to learn how to edit your recordings this is the place for you! You can learn how to record, edit and even mix together everything from songs, to wildlife sounds, to conversations, to compositions of your own.

Audio editing on a computer is where you use software to edit, record, mix, apply effects and convert audio between different formats. You can produce a CD to listen to on your hi-fi, you can make files for use on an MP3 layer or to use as sound tracks on videos. Once made, you can place the files anywhere from CDs and DVDs to the internet.

Some computers already have audio editing software installed. On the Mac, Garage Band is a particularly good tool for music creation and editing. However, if not, then you might want to consider the following digital audio editor software packages:

Audacity Free Digital Audio Editor. This is the most common and one of the best bits of the free audio software around. It will work on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

Sound Forge Range Of Digital Audio Editors Sound Forge are a well respected name in the world of digital audio editing and offer 3 digital audio editor software packages which are Sound Forge Audio Studio, CD Architect 5 and Sound Forge 8. Possibly a bit advanced for the beginner, but very good.