Quick Guide

This quick guide gives you a short overview on how to use Smart Sound Recorder. There is very little configuration you need to do to start working with the program.

Follow the steps described below to configure Smart Sound Recorder:

  1. Run Smart Sound Recorder

  2. Invoke Smart Sound Recorder settings dialog (by double click on the tray icon, by selecting Settings menu item from the tray menu or by using Hotkeys).

  3. Configure Device and Input Pin. Usually it is correct to select your sound card as a device and selected Input Pin should correspond to source of sound you intend to record( for example Microphone to record from microphone, Stereo Mix to record sound played by any software etc).

  4. Choose Format Settings to save recorded audio file.

  5. Select a directory to save audio file by pressing Browse button in Target File Location (or leave it default).

  6. Enter name of the audio file (default file name is date and time in the format yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss).

  7. Configure Silence settings (or leave default values).

  8. Set Maximum time to record (or leave default value Set Maximum time to record (or leave default value – 0, that is unlimited recording duration).

  9. If you want to permanently use these setting press Set Default button to have your settings saved.

  10. Press Record button to start recording sound. Alternatively you can select Recording->Start menu item from the tray menu or use Hotkey to start recording.


  11. If you want to pause recording for a while press Pause button. Alternatively you can select Recording->Pause or use Hotkey to pause recording.

  12. If you want to continue paused recording press Resume button. Alternatively you can select Recording->Resume or use Hotkey to resume recording.

  13. If you want to stop recording completely press Stop button. Alternatively you can select Recording->Stop or use Hotkey to stop recording.

  14. See how to View recorded files

  15. See how to Schedule recording