Super MP3 Recorder Professional

This program boasts most features we like to see in a recording application, but its ungenerous trial restriction is a definite turnoff. Super MP3 Recorder Professional's interface is both elegant and easy to use; clicking the Options button lets you set recording levels from a number of sources, such as a CD player, a telephone, or a line-in jack. Also, though this app can only capture sound in the MP3 and WAV formats, the scheduling tool and the voice-activation feature more than make up for its limited codec support. It's also nice that the program provides a very simple waveform editor for dicing up large sections of audio and adding fades, though the demo won't let you save your fixes. However, the biggest problem with Super MP3 Recorder Professional is that the trial version will only record 40 seconds of audio, which seems a bit unreasonable to us. However, if you're planning on paying for a recording program, you can definitely do worse than this one.