Virtual Sound Card (VSC)

Although there are software applications designed to record audio coming from your computer's speakers, not all of them can capture sound made by running programs.

If you're looking for a solution for this, you can try Virtual Sound Card (VSC). It's a Windows utility that you can use to not only grab audio from apps but also broadcast it to other channels.

The tool mimics a physical sound card, being able to send audio data to it. For example, sounds recorded from the microphone with VSC can be heard on the speakers, all thanks to this app.

Following a speedy setup operation that shouldn't give you any trouble, you come face to face with a simple window showing instructions on how to record or broadcast all sound on your workstation.

To get started, it's necessary to visit the sound settings panel of Windows in order to set Virtual Sound Card as the default sound device.

Once returned to the main app window, you can pick the number of audio transfer channels you want to use, as well as select them from dropdown menus to set as sender and receiver. If you're recording your voice over the microphone, you can adjust the pitch (male or female), which particularly comes in handy for masking your real voice.

As far as other audio settings are concerned, you can change the default bits per sample, sample rate, along with the buttfer count and length. There are multiple languages available for the interface, while volume control can be manually enabled for the virtual sound card.

Multiple instances are supported, so you can broadcast sound on multiple channels at the same time. The program had minimal impact on the computer's performance in our tests, running on low system resources.

Virtual Sound Card (VSC) makes it possible to easily record Skype conversations or iPhone audio, to name a couple of examples. It's practical and easy to use by anyone.