Now that you have the recording software installed you need to set up your hardware for recording. Once you have Audacity and LAME installed we are ready to move on. The reason for LAME is that the MP3 file format is proprietary so free/open-source software can't use it without a plugin.įor instruction on installing the LAME plugin go to this page: After you install it you can start using right away if you want, but in order to do anything with MP3 files you will have to install a plug in. Either way download the install file to your desktop and then double click it to start the installation. However, if you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 you will have to download the more recent beta version. I would recommend you get the older version because it is more stable and has been tested more. You will find the download button about halfway down the page. To do this we first have to download two software packages. We won't get into any of the special effects, what we are going to do is record audio from almost any source. I like to use this software because not only will it allow you to record, but you can also edit what you have recorded, and you can use all sorts of special effects. The piece of software I like to use is called Audacity.

Now to do all of this we are going to need some software.

Record computer audio with audacity