In the same way that you can carry out research using a mobile phone, you can also use a computer, or more likely, a laptop. The good thing about recording on a laptop is that the audio is captured directly in the audio software that you will later use to analyze it.

The most commonly used software is a piece of free, open-source audio software called Audacity. Those who are more experienced working with audio might prefer to use Adobe Audition, which offers users many tools for creating, mixing, and editing audio.

Both Audacity and Audition are available for Windows and Apple Mac, and at their core, they both have a very similar waveform editor.

One of the advantages of using a computer to capture EVPs is that you can see the audio waveform appear on screen as you record. If a sound is captured that you didn't hear aloud, it will show...