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Sounds like you probably need something like a minidisc recorder or dat. Some of them come with decent microphones incorporated in the mechanics, but for £50 or even less you could get a good separate one too. It's also fairly easy to record into a pc, the only tricky part is perhaps getting to arrange the recording levels of the sound that you are pouring into it. For that all you'll need is a stereo cable that plugs into both the microphone socket of your hard drive and into the line out socket of the minidisc recorder itself. With that cable you can convert literally any sound from sources as diverse as tvs, disctaphones, turntables etc etc. Software-wise, I always used Sound Forge as the main tool for recording from the sound card, plus it is extremely good not so much for the effects etc, but more for the editing functions and various amplitude modulation frequencies that you can achieve with it. Do you need to record stuff for a specific purpose like field recordings or sound experiments?
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