Pc Recording Software Options - Two Important Pc Software You Need For Your Audio Recordings

Pc Recording Software Options - Two Important Pc Software You Need For Your Audio Recordings

Audio Editing Software

Like I said, there is significant overlap between these two types of audio program.  For example, most editors can also record audio as well.  But you usually can’t do multitrack recording with an editor.  For the purpose of this article, I want to focus on the editor’s use once multiple tracks have been mixed down/rendered to a single file.  Sometimes this is called mastering.  Though in truth, audio editors have many other uses.

So after you’ve mixed all your audio tracks and files down to one final stereo sound file in your DAW, you’re ready to use your editing software.  The main difference now is that you’re working on how one single file sounds, rather than how a bunch of different bits of audio sound, alone and together with the other bits of audio.  That is such a big mindset difference that in the music business it is common for different people entirely to do each job.  For most home recording projects though, we frequently end up doing both jobs.

You open the file in the editing program and turn it into a final product by slicing, fading, turning up, turning down, and other actions that change the audio in some way.  For example, if I were doing the final edits for a song, I would make sure any extraneous noise at the beginning and end of the song are cut out, and that the song starts and ends smoothly.  Sometimes there’s a count-in, or someone coughing just at the start or end.  An editor can slice that right off.