Recording Software

If you use a computer to record, you will need some software to access and control the A/D card. There are plenty of applications for recording sound from your sound card; probably the manufacturer of your sound card will provide one as well. A good tool for testing the quality of your setup is Praat ([3]) because it allows you to record and to check the spectrum and sonagram for noise and hum. Of course you may also buy a professional or semi-professional recording software (often in combination with a 4- or 8-channel card).

Some of the commercial recording software packages will also allow you to filter and downsample signals after the recording and change them into different signal file formats.