To sum up, Audacity is as simple or as complex as you want it to be, but either way it is excellent freeware and one that i wouldn't be without.
As far as single track editing goes, there is very little that cannot be achieved with Audacity, and achieved easily and cleanly. Really though, track editing is just the tip of the iceberg with this application: it's functionality for editing is balanced with it's equally powerful functionality for recording, and also applying effects and modifications to existing audio tracks.
With Audacity you can record tracks in either mono or stereo using as sample rate of up to 96000 Hz, and up to 32bit floating point sample format, depending on your hardware. The process of recording a track (either from an internal or external source) could not be more simple once you have configured your devices, and one of the (many) neat things i really like about this application is right there in front of you: it's a little slide control that allows you to adjust the input volume of whatever it is you are recording without having to go back into the config panel.
When you have your audio track, whether you are recording a new track or simply importing an existing track, there are virtually no limits to what you can then do by way of editing and manipulating that track, from a simple EQ tweak or fade in or out, right through to applying the most exotic VST based effect you can find, and it's so easy, and if you're not happy with the result simply CTRL+Z (undo) and your track is restored to how it was: Audacity has unlimited undo capability. You also have the facility to cut,copy and paste, which is useful and can save time.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)
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