Podcasting choices: Audacity or Adobe Audition?

When I Audacity as my application of choice for recording and editing audio. This is a common route that many people go when they start out podcasting. Audacity is very good and easy to use. Good enough, in fact, for many people to stick with it. Not just for podcasts, either - it's good enough to be one's primary audio editor. And a fixes and new features. The main negative I had with Audacity, though, was that I found the learning curve quite steep on understanding precisely how to use many of the program's features. There are some good online documentation, though. It is free after all. This lack of easy-to-understand help was one of the main reasons why I decided to purchase Adobe Audition 1.5 for Windows earlier last month. Having used the free 30-day trial, I knew this was the one for me. The help is excellent, making it relatively easy to understand some of the things you can do with audio that can be difficult to grasp if audio editing isn't something you routinely do as part of your job or profession. Audition also lets you do things with audio files that either you can't in Audacity or I never was able to figure out how. For instance, with Audition you can easily set the exact sampling rate of an WAV file, or mixed a number of individual audio files which have different bit and sampling rates (a common activity with Adobe Audition 2.0, is now available. Version 2 has some very interesting Amazon.co.uk Marketplace). At about 150, the upgrade price to 2.0 from 1.5 is less eye-watering. Adobe also offers this new version on a Todd Cochrane's excellent book, reviewed the book last July). Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: