[HAM] Audacity Soundforge program. Was: Capacitors

[Kon Zissis]

Hi Christoph.
I have a Windows based computer with the Windows XP program in it.
 My computer is set up in the garage  and it gets the wireless
broadband internet signal from the modem that is in my brother's bedroom
at the other side of the house. Because of the wireless internet signal
, I often have an unstable internet connection.
My computer  knowledge is not very advanced, I mainly just use the
computer for emails and the internet.
My brother is far more knowledgeable with computers than I am and he has
set up my computer with the computer programs , the security programs ,
anti virus software etc. 
 
I have downloaded the Audacity program and I will have to learn how to
use it.
I might be able to get my brother to help me out with this but I don't
know how much he knows about audio related computer programs because he
is not into music like I am. 
 
I have a few cheap microphones and a Shure SM-58 but I don't have any
studio recording quality microphones so therefore I do not know  how
good the quality of the recording of my Hammond organ and Leslie would
be after I learn how to use  this program. Hopefully I might be able to
get a nice full sound with the proper use of the EQ.
 
It would be good to have a good quality digital recorder like the Samson
Zoom  recorder that Scott Hawthorn uses to get  good quality  sounding
live recordings.
All the best.
Kon
 
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
I assume you have a Windows PC or maybe also Linux or something. Get the

program
"audacity" (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ), a free audio recording, 
editing and playback
program with a lot of nifty features. Despite from enabling you to 
export into an MP3
you can also keep the full sample information within an audacity project

and exporting
into a WAV-file also preserves the full sample info (as someone, Keith I

believe, objected that
an MP3 degrades the sound quality). And you have the Fourier transform 
in the program
also. You can record from a mic or from line in or from the sound mixer 
program.
As said, for free on vaious platforms.