Sound recording/editing

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh@bitstream.net>]

I've been doing some archiving of audio tape to MP3.  I've been using a TCL 
program called Sound Studio to do editing.  It's slow (it took over an hour 
to load a 400MB sound file on an AMD K6-450) but it works well and it 
doesn't crash.

However, when I tried to use it to record through the sound card I ended up 
with noticable hiss.  I don't know if it's a software or hardware issue but 
does anyone have any suggestions for cheap or free programs to use for 
recording?  I might just have to splurge for something like Sound Forge on 
Windows but I'd much rather use Linux both for stability and well, like 
most people here I'm just trying to avoid windows.

Thanks,
Brady