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Audio Record Wizard

By NowSmart Studio Free to try Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Jun 6, 2013

NowSmart Studio's Audio Record Wizard makes it easy to record sounds on your PC from a microphone, a file, or anything you can plug into your sound card, like a tape deck or TV. It's great for recording chat sessions because it can record sounds from two sources, such as a microphone and Internet feed, and save it all as one file in a range of formats (MP3, OGG, WAV, and FLAC). It can convert and merge audio files, manage MP3 tags, and perform other audio editing duties. Many of its tools are particularly suited to voice recording, such as Voice Activation, File Length Limitation, and Noise Suppression. Audio Record Wizard Version 6.98 is free to try with a two-minute recording limit.

Audio Record Wizard's user interface closely resembles a media player in layout, style, and size. It's a logical design since the program also plays back the recordings it makes. The familiar layout and controls made it easier to learn this tool's ins and outs. By ins, we mean inputs, i.e. Source, which the program lists in a drop-down menu at the top of the window, just above the File display and Level controls. By outs, we mean output directory, file type, and so on, as well as the media player controls in the bottom panel. But there's no need to guess since Audio Record Wizard opens with a Step-by-Step Guide displayed in the main window.

We clicked "Source" and selected our video card's output. We played a video and clicked "Record." Audio Record Wizard started recording the sound feed as an MP3, which played back normally. Next we tried the Line In and Microphone feeds--also successfully. Stereo Mix recorded audio from our motherboard's audio driver, but Audio Record Wizard also recognized all seven inputs on our external Firewire sound card, including analog (Line In) and digital (S/PDIF) sources. But the feature we wanted to try was NowSmart Audio's Computer Sound & Voice input, so we clicked "How to Use" in the Source menu, which opened a Web-based tutorial, entitled "How to record online conversations." Again the results were great. We suggest you try this nifty tool, yourself.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Audio Record Wizard 6.98.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 7.21

Bug fixes and performance improve.

General

Release June 30, 2016
Date Added June 30, 2016
Version 7.21

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 643,719
Downloads Last Week 9
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Developer's Description

Audio Record Wizard is not another giant audio editor. This is an easy to use, fast and stable sound recorder software. It help you to start recording quickly and easily. You can use it to: 1) Record voice from a microphone; 2) Record from external audio device (like tape player); 3) Record any audio playing on the computer into digital audio files (MP3/OGG/WAV/FLAC). 4) Record computer sounds and voice at the same time. Also, it provides some convenient features: File Length Limitation, Voice Activation System, Schedule, Command Line Mode, Noise Suppression, Auto Gain Control, Trim, Tag Editor(Song Identification), Build-in Audio Converter and Audio Merger.
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