Sound Studio is an easy-to-use yet powerful audio recording and editing app for your Mac. It’s ideal for digitizing tapes and vinyl records, recording live performances, creating mixes with crossfades, adjusting levels and EQ settings, applying digital effects, and saving results in most major file formats. Whether you’re a music lover or need to record and edit lectures, sermons, or radio broadcasts, Sound Studio has you covered.

One of Sound Studio’s standout features is its ability to layer sounds across multiple tracks and apply 24 different special effects, including fun ones like “monkey noise.” You can also edit iTunes metadata, making it easier to organize and categorize your audio files.

However, there are a few disadvantages you should be aware of. Sound Studio doesn’t save MP3 recordings without an external environment, so you’ll have to save them in alternative formats like AAC, AIFF, or WAV and then convert them later. There’s also no way to save EQ settings, which can be frustrating if you need to make multiple recordings with the same noise level.

Despite these limitations, Sound Studio is a simple and feature-rich audio recording and editing application. It offers a range of editing features, is great for recording vinyl and lectures, and also saves in most major formats.