GoldWave

GoldWave is a professional digital audio editor. It is one of the most popular and highest rated audio editors for Windows. Use it to play, edit, mix, restore, and analyze audio, or apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, time warp, noise reduction, pop/click filter. New files can be recorded from cassettes, albums, radio, microphone, etc. or digitally copied from audio CDs.

Real-time visuals are displayed during playback and recording. sustains MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, and many more formats and can perform batch reconstructions and processing. Excellent value with free upgrades. It has a proven track record with 15 years in the audio editing software business.

The Control Properties window configures many features of the Control window. Use the Noise Reduction filter to remove continuous noises, such as a hiss or a hum from a sound. The reduction envelope can be created manually or calculated automatically from any point within the sound or from clipboard audio.You can select a specific audio device, change playback looping and regions, set a date and time for recording, enable input monitoring, configure the visuals, or set playback and recording devices.The Equalizer effect is similar to equalizer faders found on stereo systems. Use it to alter treble/bass levels.A DirectX plug-in wrapper is included.

Features:
>Customizable waveform colours
>Customizable keyboard shortcuts
>Automatic timer (day/time) recording or level activated recording
>Configurable RAM or hard drive editing
>High quality: 24 bit, 192kHz
>Real-time visuals: bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, level meter, ...
>Fast non-destructive editing. Cut, copy, delete, and undo take only a fraction of a second, regardless of the file size
>Multiple undo levels
>Many effects : distortion, doppler, echo, filter, mechanize, offset, pan, volume shaping, invert, resample, equalizer, time warp, pitch, reverb, volume matcher, channel mixer, ...
>Effect previewing and presets
>Audio restoration filters: noise reduction, pop/click, smoother
>Clean, friendly, easy-to-use interface
>Multiple Document Interface for working with many files in one session
>Several built-in accessibility features an
>Supported file formats: wav, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox, mat, snd, voc, FLAC, raw binary data, text data, and more
>File format plug-ins for the next generation of audio compression, such as WMA and MP4/M4A
>DirectX Audio Plug-in hosting
>Effect chain editor
>Audio CD Reader many keyboard shortcuts
>Huge file editing: 4GB and beyond (NTFS only)
>Batch processing and conversion
>Drag-and-drop cue points, with auto-cue and file splitting features.
>Direct waveform editing with the mouse
>Customizable tool bars
>Excellent value, free upgrades

Simple to use and have a lot of options .