| | |  | Desktop Publishing | Home » » Sound Studio 3: Record, Edit, Add Effects to Audio (Mac) | | | | | | | Description: | | Sound Studio 3 is an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing audio digitally to your computer. Digitize vinyl records and tapes, record live performances, create your own mixes with crossfades, tweak the levels and EQ, apply digital, and save in all major file formats with Sound Studio. A perfect accessory to create and customize your own iTunes tracks! | | | Features: | |
• Mac OS X software application for recording and editing audio digitally
• Easily digitize tapes and vinyl records or record live performances
• Create mixes with crossfades; tweak levels and EQ; apply digital effects
• Save in all major file formats including AIFF, AAC, MP3, and Wave
• Record professional-sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.48 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.35 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.26 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.49 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 10 reviews |
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| Mac OS X | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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19 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Better than Roxio's Toast/Spin Doctor, but not up to Cool Edit (PC)May 07, 2007
By Samuel Chell
I'm primarily interested in converting vinyl to digital and recording and editing FM audio, though lately I've begun to record live music. The colorful, gaudy, comparably-priced Toast/Spin Doctor program may be slightly handier for converting vinyl LPs, but its wave patterns are unreadable and its editing functions too imprecise to be practical for editing a large file. Sound Studio requires a bit more study than Spin Doctor, at least for the uninitiated, but the wave patterns are readable, offering the user more than the merely decorative squiggly lines of the Roxio product. Moreover, it has a reliable and easy-to-set timer for automatic recording, a very useful feature that's missing in Spin Doctor. Finally, it comes packaged with a handy little hard-copy manual--perhaps the reason Roxio's Toast is once again including printed instructions.
As for the recent, heavily promoted Wiretap Studio, it's definitely the program of choice for recording audio files off the internet (I mostly use it to record files from NPR Jazz). And it enables you to preview about a dozen different compression ratios in real time, a unique feature. Moreover, you can record in any compression ratio rather than convert after the fact, which helps insure against exceeding storage capacity while recording. Still I feel more comfortable recording and editing non-internet sound with Sound Studio. The latter offers a bigger display, more accessible wave patterns, better level indicators, more protection against distortion, and makes the saving of a single part of a large unedited file a simple, straightforward operation.
Later: Sound Studio 3 has updated to Sound Studio 3.5, which lists dozens of additional features and add-ons. It's no problem downloading an upgrade from the Freeverse site. The new version does nothing that's different from my old Sound Studio 2, which was practically free as I recall (the price of the present one seems a bit high when compared to the burning and video features of the comparably priced Toast). But the current program has been, for the most part, stable and dependable.
The other program in this price range worth considering is Fission, which appears to have all of the features of Sound Studio plus more reader-friendly instructions and user-friendly icons. The problem with the program is that it requires a separate recording program (Audio Hijack Pro).
Apple, which is always popular with musicians and artists, doesn't appear to offer any programs comparable to the PC favorite, Cool Edit, but Sound Studio may well be the closest for the reasons given. Although the instruction manual is relatively short and accessible, a few more recommendations and tutorials for the neophyte would be welcome. Otherwise, the plethora of settings and effects can soon become overwhelming. For example, is Normalization preferable to the Compressor setting? Is it advisable to use both? When Normalizing, is it better to use the Peak or Average Power (RMS) option? After hours of experimentation, my advice comes down to this: 1. boost the volume a tad if the signal seems to require it; 2. use the wave patterns to cut out the dead spaces, coughs and clams. Trust a decent mic and recorder to do the rest.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Excellent basic sound editorNov 09, 2006
By Magikchef
I have used a number of different "low end"" audio editors and found Sound Edit FAR superior on my Mac. It works smoothly without crashes, which plagued most of the other programs I tried (incl. Audacity). I do mainly voice editing for lectures with some music background mixed it. It is very easy to enlarge and edit out unwanted sound bytes or noises. Only thing it either doesn't have, or I haven't figured out yet, is how to filter the entire recording for crackles and pops. For the price, Sound Edit is way above the rest-even the freeware.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Nice handy-dandy audio editorAug 09, 2006
By Professional Strong Man
I like this software because it is a nice and easy editing program. It operates mainly in two tracks, so if you're looking for someing a la ProTools, keep looking. I use this program mainly to check audio files that students submit for grading - its quick and easy to pop in their disk, open the file and check levels, etc. Its also nice for quick editing of small files. I'm not too keen on the price but when I remember what Cool Edit 2000 cost when it first came out, its no big deal.
I like that it works with all Apple formats as well as .wav and .mp3. You don't have to worry about compatability problems. Documentation and support are easy to read and understand.
All told, this is not the solution for multi-track work on the Mac. ProTools is still the top dog. But for basic editing, listening, and sharing files, it can't be beat. Its a nice low-cost solution.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Sound editing softwareDec 03, 2009
By D. nielsen
If you have a mac and want to edit sound of all kinds you will love this package. Sound Studio is a
good name for the product. It does just about anything you could want. I even removed "pop" from old 78 rpm records
without the removal being noticeable.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great for live shows!Nov 04, 2011
By jDunaway65
"Jerry"
I'm a performing musician, and i make an effort to record every show with my TASCAM digital recorder. Sometimes I can hook into the board, other times, I try to find a "sweet spot" to hide it and use the built-in mics. I hit record and make one long file for each set, often over 1GB per set.
I have found it easy to navigate, just follow the waveforms and find the approximate break between songs. Add markers where one ends, and if there is awkward silence, or nonessential conversation between songs, add another marker when next song begins. Continue until end of file, save then split by markers. By naming each marker (with something I know will be essential or non-essential), I can go to the folder where the split files were saved, delete non-essential, then use any burning software to create discs that I CAN navigate with any home or car CD player.
Also, since it shows waveforms, there were occasional songs that the quiet passages (and with the folks I play with, we can bring it down so low you could almost whisper over top of it) were almost inaudible. I could mark the beginning and end of those passages and amplify them enough to be appreciable, but not so much that the dynamics/emotion created by these level differences was lost.
Sound Studio is a really good basic program -- simple enough that "novices" can use it (and learn the principles of recording and mixing... I am an example of that!), but with enough features that someone more knowledgeable than a "casual" user can do some really great stuff with it. Again, it may be no ProTools, Logic, or whatever, but it definitely delivers on carrying out its INTENDED purpose.
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