How to record sound on Windows 7

Windows 7 is a Microsoft operating system comes with a multimedia orientation of excellent quality and the variety of potential uses.

You can play music, sounds, videos, movies, as well as photographs and slideshows. But this operating system also allows us to give vent to our creativity: you can also create new media files. Specifically, in this guide, we will show how to record sounds on the Windows 7 operating system, acquiring them directly from an input device very common: the microphone.

1.) All computers that are netbook, notebook or desktop provide a dedicated entrance to the microphone that, through a special connector jack, you can connect to this simple device. First of all, so you have to make sure that your microphone is connected to the computer and in which conditions of operation is located. To do this you go to Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Audio. Now select Recording, then the device name in microphone. Check, in particular, the useful information shown at the bottom right, the value of which should be indicated as ” Use this device (enable) “.

2.) At this point, as you found the correct connection between the microphone and your personal computer, and activating reception of the sounds from the outside world (voices, noises and so on). Now, another option that I recommend you search for are in those labeled by the description and Listening is the check box ” Listen to this device “. It will let you hear live, and keep under control, just what the microphone is receiving all the time, through the sound card.

3.) Now switch to use the software on the supplied standard Windows Seven for the activities covered in this guide: his name is simply ” Sound Recorder “. Use of extremely basic and intuitive everything, you have to do is click on Start recording, put the sound source very close to the microphone and let the sounds get on your PC. After selecting ” Stop Recording “. Now you stand in front of a screen classic save files, and you can choose a name for the recording of sounds just completed, and the directory where a store. The format in which you save the audio file is WMA, which stands for Windows Media Audio.