Recording sound with Win10

[pjphilli]

Hi

How can I record sound (eg from a microphone) using Windows 10?

Cheers Peter

[pluto]

There's an app installed by default called "Voice Recorder" - does what it says on the tin :)

[mswhin63]

"Voice Recorder" has very few options if you need to manipulate the sound file, but is OK for general recording.

I personally use "Audacity" although is not for the faint hearted, it is a complex solution although once understood basic functions are easy to pick up.
It free as well. Customise installation just in case they install some software that you don't want.

[RAJAH235]

+1 re; Audacity.
Does a heap more than you may use or need.
Linky > https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

[pjphilli]

Thanks for the advice. Now all fixed.
Cheers Peter

[pjphilli]

Hi Malcom
Having used Voice Recorder I decided to have a look at Audacity.
At first sight I am very impressed by this program. As you say it is a
complex solution and not for the feint hearted. I found that the instructions, although comprehensive, were rather hard to match to the Audacity screen!
However, I found a good tutorial on the net and I have spent a big part
of today sorting out how I can achieve my objective of recording from the radio and playing it back etc. I will have to set up the MP3 conversion ap at some other time as I got a lost trying to do this. However, a simple free ap download called Freemake Audio Converter solved this problem. I see there is about a 5:1 reduction from WAV and the quality is good enough for my purpose. (A quick sum seemed to show that one hour of WAV recording would occupy about 1/2Gbyte).
Thanks again for the tip.
Cheers Peter