I used to write and record a fair amount of music when I was younger and I got hold of some software for the PC about 5 years ago called Audio Cleaning Lab Deluxe 2004 Edition (by Magix) which enabled me to convert an analogue tape recording to a digital file on the computer (either an MP3 or a .WAV file) and burn the music onto a CD.

In addition to this you could plug a microphone into the MIC socket on your computer and if you have this software the program would be able to record your voice directly onto the computer which it would then save as either an MP3 or .WAV sound file. What you would need is a reasonable quality microphone. Now you could spend anything on a microphone from about £8 up to hundreds of pounds and I am not an expert on microphones but some give a better performance with vocal sound and others are better for recording instruments.

I would say that the latest version of this software would probably cost about £20 or so and in my experience the software should do what you need it to do. I am sure there are plenty of other similar packages available to buy (some of which may be better) - Amazon.co.uk is always a good place to search for these things. Oh and another package which I have on my computer is called Audacity which you can download off the internet for free. With Audacity you can layer different sounds on top of other recorded sounds so for instance you could record an audio broadcast using a Microphone and the Audio Cleaning Lab software. After saving the audio file, then if you wanted to add some music or sound effects you would then open the file in Audacity and add the layers of music or sound on top of the original broadcast and save the end result. There are lots of packages out there but these two packages combined are relatively cheap and should do the job.

I hope this may be of some help.

audacity is free for the pc..if you have a mac use garageband

Richard said:

I used to write and record a fair amount of music when I was younger and I got hold of some software for the PC about 5 years ago called Audio Cleaning Lab Deluxe 2004 Edition (by Magix) which enabled me to convert an analogue tape recording to a digital file on the computer (either an MP3 or a .WAV file) and burn the music onto a CD.

In addition to this you could plug a microphone into the MIC socket on your computer and if you have this software the program would be able to record your voice directly onto the computer which it would then save as either an MP3 or .WAV sound file. What you would need is a reasonable quality microphone. Now you could spend anything on a microphone from about £8 up to hundreds of pounds and I am not an expert on microphones but some give a better performance with vocal sound and others are better for recording instruments.

I would say that the latest version of this software would probably cost about £20 or so and in my experience the software should do what you need it to do. I am sure there are plenty of other similar packages available to buy (some of which may be better) - Amazon.co.uk is always a good place to search for these things. Oh and another package which I have on my computer is called Audacity which you can download off the internet for free. With Audacity you can layer different sounds on top of other recorded sounds so for instance you could record an audio broadcast using a Microphone and the Audio Cleaning Lab software. After saving the audio file, then if you wanted to add some music or sound effects you would then open the file in Audacity and add the layers of music or sound on top of the original broadcast and save the end result. There are lots of packages out there but these two packages combined are relatively cheap and should do the job.

I hope this may be of some help.