WAV Sound Recording

Wav Sound Recording:
Cool Edit

Cool Edit is a program developed by Syntrillium, it is a detailed, feature-rich application with full user ability. The Syntrillium website, has a demo available for download, it is fully operational except that only 2 features can be enabled on each load, that doesn't diminish the software at all, it just makes it slightly annoying to use. In this example we will use Cool Edit 96. Here is a table of the proz and conz:

Proz	Conz
Quick. Fairly easy to use. Supports a huge variety of file formats. Doesn't have high hardware demands. A tonne of features. Good interface.	Not Free. Quite complicated and complex.

As you can see, Cool Edit 96 is quite a lot more complicated than Sound Recorder, it has a lot more buttons, and the wave display is different. If you don't know the basics, you should see the Sound Recorder tutorial before visiting this page.
Cool Edit 96 has a CD Player built in, so you can record CD's easier.

As we mentioned in the Sound Recorder Tutorial, Cool Edit lets you choose from a number of Sample Rates, Channels & Resolution. When you start a new Waveform in Cool Edit 96, you will see the screen at the side... let's go over it...
Sample Rate - This part is generally the overall quality of the track, how much data it catches at one time.. The Audio CD uses a 44100 sample rate, so choosing a rate that high is CD Quality, Internet Wav files are generally sampled at 11025, the 3 main sample rates are 11025, 22050 and 44100.
Channels - Mono or Stereo, Mono means that the same sound will come out of both speakers, stereo is sending 1 slightly different sound to each speaker, generally mono should be chosen, because the file size is twice as small and the quality difference isn't that big.
Resolution - Another quality option, 8-bit is not as crisp as 16-bit, but it's not as large when it comes to file size. The resolution is how clear a wave sounds.