Voice Over for Flash

1

I am doing a flash intro for the web that will contain music and Voice Over. I need to purchase some sort of sound importing device (microphone, digital voice recorder…) and a sound editing program that I can edit the music, add the voice over, and save it small enough to be used in flash. Does anyone have any recommendations on hardware, and software. I dont want to spend to much money becuase this is not something that I do all the time. Also how small should my audio files be?

THANKS!!

2

use any editing soft you want.
Buy any mic you want.
Make it as small as possible.
Voilà

3

Audacity is a free sound editor but to put it in mp3 you need an encoder (which i suppose there are stronger ones and maybe funky sound mutating ones or something becuase somehow that is suppossed to be a plus.