[78-L] recording off telephone

[Cary Ginell]

For some years now, I've been using a Sony Minidisc recorder. You can get a patchcord that connects the recorder (via a mini-plug) to a phone jack. The problem with this is that you need to plug a headset into the recorder in order to hear what the person on the other end is saying. For them to hear you, you have to talk into the phone mouthpiece. It's a jerryrigged system at best, but if the material isn't being broadcast, it makes for a good documentation device.

 

Another way, which I haven't tried yet, is to use Skype, which channels the other person's audio through your computer's speakers. Then, it's just a matter of setting up an open mike in front of the speakers to capture the sound.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> From: mshoshani at sbcglobal.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:02:11 -0500
> Subject: Re: [78-L] recording off telephone
> 
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:57 -0700, Eric Goldberg wrote:
> > I will be doing some phone interviews that I wish to record directly on my computer. Can anyone suggest an easy, but inexpensive, way to do this.
> > 
> > These interviews will be with some doowop singers whose recordings might have been released on 78s, so this query does have a 78 connection.
> 
> Heh. The way we used to do it when I was a pup was put one of those
> suction-cup induction pickups over the "network" area on the body of the
> phone. I suspect that modern phones don't work that way.
> 
> If you have access to a radio station I might suggest asking to use (or
> rent) an unused studio and conduct your interview through the telephone
> hybrid. If you can do that, record it in "stereo" with your voice on one
> track and the "receive" from the hybrid on the other. That way any "fuzz
> feedback" from your own voice can be muted, and you'll have a cleaner
> mono mixdown.
> 
> MS
> 
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