Mixing up sounds definitely is fun and productive. I prefer to use Goldwave, but have used Audacity, CoolEdit, Steinbergs Wavelab & Cubase, and a handful of others. For what hunters need to do with their sounds though, Goldwave and any of the "simpler" programs suffice. Once a hunter knows how to Copy/Paste/Mix in Goldwave, everything else is just a matter of becoming familiar with where the buttons are in the software. Again, anybody who has a computer can get any e-caller sound into their computer fairly fast once they do it a few times. I put the entire Johnny Stewart collection into digital format in a couple days from Cassettes. After sounds are recorded to the computer though, sometimes it's necessary to go back and clean them up a bit. Does the animal care if they have been cleaned up???? Probably not, but I prefer to do it just because I don't want to doubt anything in the field. Gary, are those sounds shown in the Blaze Rip-Edit-Burn clipped, or can you expand the dynamic range in the viewer so as to see the entire sound-wave? One of the handy things when using the sound editing software for recording sounds into the computer is being able to monitor the sounds and make sure they aren't clipping while recording. There's nothing I hate more than loading up a sound and seeing all of those flat clipped tops on the waves. Good topic though and I'm sure with the stereo units on the market now, hunters are going to want to start mixing their own tunes.
