• Wiretap Studio For Mac
• Free Recording Studio For Laptop

reader comments

WireTap Studio is a professional audio recording, editing, and management solution, allowing you to manage and manipulate your audio with ease. Discretely record from a specific application, record all of your Mac system audio simultaneously, or even record from any hardware/line-in device of your choice.

Recording and editing audio on your Mac just got a lot easier with Ambrosia Software's official release of WireTap Studio, the next evolutionary step in the company's WireTap line of products. Sporting an extremely sophisticated tagline of 'I'd tap that,' WireTap Studio directly competes with the likes of Audio Hijack Pro in that it allows you to record from any hardware input or software audio passing through your Mac. WireTap Studio stands out, however, with a number of impressive new features, beginning with its completely lossless workflow.

• WireTap Studio is a powerful audio processing solution that enables you to both record and edit content captured by using your system tools or any other devices connected to your Mac. The application is able to deal with microphones, line in or audio input devices, and much more.
• WireTap Studio also supports the Griffin radio SHARK, allowing you to time-shift AM/FM radio programs. You can even record from multiple simultaneous streaming audio sources, so you can listen to them later at your leisure.

From the ground up, WireTap Studio is designed to record your projects in a lossless format, and then edit and export to various compression formats while maintaining the master lossless copy in a library. You can even return to a project at a later date and change the edits you made; WireTap Studio can save all that work so you have the freedom to second guess yourself as often as you like. Things get more interesting when you add WireTap Studio's LivePreview feature into the mix.

At any point during editing or simply previewing a source, you can apply a compression preview to hear what your project will sound like before you ever export or even hit record. No rendering, no countless export-then-wait operations to try out various compression levels and formats. It's like checking the Preview option on a Photoshop filter to get an instant look at what your adjustments will look like.

Only this is with audio... and you don't have to pay $600.

But wait, there's more: WireTap Studio is great for podcasting too, as it not only allows you to record Skype and iChat conversations, but it records you and your participants on separate tracks. Perfect for cleaning up those inevitable quality issues that seem to appear just when you don't need them. Even timed recording is here, with the ability to schedule a recording and specify which app's audio gets saved.

Wiretap Studio For Mac

WireTap Studio has strong support for exporting and uploading your finished product to a server, iDisk, via Bluetooth, e-mail and more. This is where one of the few drawbacks appears, though: support for uploading to a server doesn't seem quite as robust as it should. While WireTap Studio is obviously a recording and editing app first and an FTP utility second, we would like to have seen a little better support for things like exporting to multiple servers.

Free Recording Studio For Laptop

That said, WireTap Studio feels like a great 1.0 product so far. There's a lot of clever polish all over, from the ability to tag MP3 and MP4 files in the editor window, an auto-fade option when cropping audio, and a preference for waking your Mac to catch a scheduled recording. To help get users off the ground, Ambrosia posted a few video tutorials, and a demo is of course available. A full license runs for $69, though for a limited time customers can upgrade from Ambrosia's own WireTap Pro or Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro or Fission products for just $30.