Re: [microsound] land-line phone recording

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

If you mean, "how can you record a phone call?" read on...

The simple answer is to go to RadioShack or local equivalent where they
sell phone tapping devices that will give you line-level outs for both
sides of a conversation. They're made for journalists etc. Cheap.

However, the quality is not that great, even with a clean phone line,
which is one reason "real" radio interviews are done using ISDN lines at
studios.  Quiet rooms, good mics, and a high quality connection!

The DIY way to do this is to do two-ended recording, where each side
individually records themselves with a decent mic/MD or whatever.
Whoever's on the far end makes a high-bit rate MP3 and emails the result,
which can pretty easily be synced up. If you do this in conjunction with
making a scratch reference recording using one of the radioshack
phonetappers, you can sync it with very high accuracy of course.

I've done several interviews for broadcast this way, and the quality is
equal to an ISDN interview, as long as the people making the recordings on
either end know what they're doing and the environment is quiet, the mics
are passable, etc.

 best,
  aaron

  ghede@xxxxxxxx
  http://www.quietamerican.org

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