What would you need to record your voice and possibly some background music on the computer so CDs could be burned with that recording?

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Its hard work. I used "My Sound Studio" and a Radio Shack microphone. The mic is good until the on button breaks. Until then, the quality is good. I redorded a full Christmas CD. It took me 72 solid hours spread over a month.

Depending on the quality of the sound card, a simple microphone might be adequate with suitable software.

But in most cases better convenience and sound quality can be obtained by using one of the many portable MP3 audio devices now on the market; most of these connect to the computer with a USB cable. It is important to pick one that has a microphone at least (some only support playing audio files transferred FROM the computer, but for this purpose one needs to transfer data from the device TO the computer). Some models also support connecting "line-level" signals from just about any audio device; this is often much better because then high-quality audio components can be used instead of the tiny microphone in the MP3 gadget.

Look around in a local computer or electronics store; devices that support capturing audio from a line-level input currently can be found for a little more than 100 US dollars.

Try a Tascam US224. You can find it at any major music store. It's both a soundcard (which is exellent for music recording like live plug-in instruments and mics) and a 4 channel mixer. It's basically an iterface between mics, midi and regular instruments and your computer. You'll also need recording software and as far as I know it comes with a pretty decent program called Cubase so that's all you need. It's also pretty inexpensive, check it out at www.tascam.com

Good luck.

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