WavePad

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What is WavePad?

WavePad is an audio editing application from NCH Software headquartered Greenwood Village, Colorado.

Categories & Use Cases

Audio Editing

Media

WavePad includes a sound recorder that supports auto-trim and voice activated recording.

The full Sound Effects Library comes with WavePad Master's edition and gives you access to 800 SFX files and 200 music files that you can add to ringtones, podcasts, movie soundtracks, and more.

Audio Effects include Amplify, Normalize, Equalizer, Envelope, Reverb, Echo, Reverse, Noise Reduction, Sample Rate Conversion and more.

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Eric Lennep View profile

Vice President in Marketing at Pharos Consulting Services (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Voice recording is our most used function. It is simple and straight forward. We have trained non-technical voice over talent to use it.
The cleanup tools have saved us from having to go out and rerecord some bad original recordings.
Being able to cut out sections of recordings and insert a different audio piece is a great time saver.

Cons

WavePad only works with a single audio track. NCH does offer MixPad for multi-track editing. We also use MixPad occasionally to mix background music with voice.

Return on Investment

We are able to work with local voice-over talent and amateurs and that allows us to keep our cost low to our clients.
WavePad is so inexpensive that is pays for itself on the first project. The Master's edition is less than $100 and the standard edition is less than $50.

Other Software Used

Ecwid, Hootsuite

Usability