14 Free Tools To Record Sound On Your Computer Effectively

Recording sound within computer may be the most effective and easiest way to get the sound of certain objects that regular ways can’t help (for example, the internet streaming audios, sounds in movies or games). Here are 14 tools that help you record sound directly from the sound card or the microphone. You then can manipulate the recorded sound such as cut, paste, adjust the quality or export to various audio formats.

01. FREE Hi-Q Recorder is a free sound recording tool. It's the easiest way to record absolutely any sound! Easy enough for anyone to use. It records directly to: MP3, (Constant Bitrate: CBR), stereo or mono. The quality is excellent at all settings!

02. Pocket Voice Recorder is freeware sound recorder that records equally well from microphone and any other input line available with your sound card.

03. ADC Sound Recorder is a free Windows program for recording Sound from all sources available with a computer's Sound card that includes a microphone, line-in, wave, etc. Recordings are automatically saved to the program's cassette file that can keep up to ten minutes of recorded material in 11KHz, 8-bit, mono quality.

04. Free MP3 Sound Recorder is a powerful, smart and reliable sound recording program to record sound from microphone, internet streaming audio, music played by Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, Flash, Games, etc. The recorded audio can be saved in MP3, WAV, OGG, VOX audio formats. You can choose the output audio's frequency, bitrate, channel and quality.

05. OpD2d is a simple, small, easy to use audio recording application. It can be used to easily record anything you can get into your soundcard direct onto your hard disk. You might also have noticed that it's got a bit of an odd interface.

06. All2WAV Recorder is a program that makes very easy for you the audio recording and playing. With this utility, you can record sound from the microphone, Internet streaming audio, games or media files (played by All2WAV Recorder or other multimedia applications. e.g. WinAmp, RealOne Player, Windows Media Player).

07. SoundPad is a full-featured sound wave editor for Windows. It includes the full multi level undo and redo of changes to the sound, live displays of a recording wave image, converts from one compression format to another easily, allows full editing of compressed sound formats etc.

08. MP3Recorder is a sound record utility, it can records any audio source from your computer to MP3 audio directly without temporary WAV files generated. This utility supports recording sound source from microphone, Internet audio streaming, Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, Flash, Games, etc.

09. Aiglon Vox Recorder will record the sound from an audio source only when an audio signal is present DTMF decoder & frequency meter.

10. Sonarca Sound Recorder is a powerful sound recording software, with it you can easily record various sound input to WAV and MP3 audio formats. It supports multiple sound input, audio/video files playback, CD player, line in, microphone, internet radio, even the obsolete tape/VHS cassette or anything else. Besides, it uses latest Lame MP3 encoder which is generally believed as the the best MP3 encoder in the world.

11. Fast Recorder is a fast-starting wave sound recorder. It puts an icon on Windows' system tray, so it is accessible even when you run other applications. When you click on the icon, it will immediately start recording, for example if you hear a song you like on the radio, you can instantly start recording.

12. Digital Audio Recorder is a simple application which allows users to record sound from any source in your computer directly to MP3. You can record sound from microphone and anything that is being played on your computer. It is the simplest recording program.

13. VURecorder is a simple audio capture tool with timed recording and file splitting features supporting direct encoding to Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA & WAV formats.

14. Donar MP3 Recorder is a handy and easy to use sound recorder program created to capture any sound in real-time. It is a very easy and reliable way to record any sound whether voice from microphone, internet streaming audio, or music played by Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, Flash, games, etc.