Audacity

i've used both audacity and audition for evp. for field recordings during investigations i usually set up linux boxes for audio. its cheap, fast and simple. then once home, i do analysis and processing on macs. for simple recording audacity can manage long runtimes and decent bitrates with relatively low system resources but its really awkward and limited in offline processing tasks. however it does run on win/linux/mac. audition was built as an industry level sound design production tool by adobe so its in a different league than audacity. its very stable and is excellent for analysis- the spectrograms are awesome and its great at upsampling but it is a slave to microsoft windows so all of your old problems will follow you onto the field. a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. for evp analysis on mac i like to use pro tools and cubase/nuendo. unlike audition the serious pro apps allow you to do all the really powerful process/editing at the track level instead of offline so you can really filter down your evp and then be able to save all of that work and later apply it to any other recordings- an invaluable timesaver, because otherwise you have to sit there and re-apply a set of tasks manually over and over again. if you're spending hours on evp its worth the cost for real software.

I prefer adobe audition but audacity is nice cause it's free :)

Helen
www.spiritinvestigations.net

Thanks for the answer Doug!

Yep I have been looking for one! Thank you!

What does the GT crew use ?