I'm using Audacity for recording... I find it easier, and with it's Normalization and Noise Removal effects my recordings sound ok... As far as they can sound ok, because I'm using a cheap (2 euros or so) PC mic, so the quality cannot be good anyway... I use it just to "inspect" my playing, you can judge much better when you're just listening, a bit harder while you're playing because you concentrate on how to play something, and not to hear if it's played well... I use Kristal if I want to lay a backing track and record something over it... Because Kristal is a sequencer, not just a recording program like Audacity...
Anyway, my suggestion, I think they're both easy to learn, or at least to start with... But I think you can safely start with Audacity if you just want to record yourself and hear how that sounds... On the other hand, if you want to overdub something you can use Kristal... And I just don't think that this is win or lose situation... You won't make a mistake if you start with either of them, and you'll be able to fairly easy switch to the other one...
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