The recent surge of interest over podcasting is creating a renewed interest in PC-based audio editing. The process of actually recording audio with your PC is fairly straightforward once you have everything in place.

Getting to the point where your system is ready for recording is a whole different story.

A number of steps are required to optimize your PC for creating and editing music. Performance enhancing configuration, silencing of background sounds and optimization of general system settings are all necessary for creating the ultimate audio recording environment.

Learn simple steps to optimize your PC audio and video, then go out and create your podcast, stream a radio show, or convert your old records and cassettes to digital formats.