Something that old-school Windows users remember is the “Recorder” program in Windows 3.1, as in the macro recorder:(image credit) This was a very short-lived but very useful program as it had the ability to record keystrokes and mouse clicks into a script and then be run later at any time. After Windows 3.1 this program disappeared, and people...

I do operate a personal YouTube channel where I periodically post videos of me playing guitar or synthesizer. Each music style attracts distinctly different audiences. The guitar folk are expecting a certain type of music while the synth folk are expecting something totally different. Here are some example personal videos of mine (I need to show by example so I...

Screencasting is when you record your computer’s screen as a video. There are several apps that do the job such as Camstudio (free) and Camtasia Studio (paid), but the problem is that you have to install software, set options up, record a few screencasts before you get the settings right, etc. Screencast-O-Matic is as easy as screencasts get. Just go to...

Some people have noted that the voice quality in the videos I produce for PCMech and in personal music recordings I make that have sought-after "FM sound" to them, which loosely translates to "sounds like the dee jay I hear on FM radio". If you’re the type that records audio and are looking for that particular sound, it’s actually...

The sound card on your desktop computer has 1/8th-inch ports on the rear to accept other types of audio input (blue for line in, pink for mic in). If you have a custom-build computer you may have these ports also routed to the front as well. If you record audio at all with these ports, be it via a microphone built-in to a headset or having a mixing board fed a...