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  • From: Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Digital Voice Recorders
  • Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:54:39 -0500

BSW link was primarily to illustrate the type of device required. I don't recommend any particular model having never used any of them. The Radio Shack one should work just fine. For the purpose I wouldn't expect difference in sound quality to be particularly important. The more expensive one might be built more solidly. Worth thinking about if you intend to use it daily for work. Cheaper in the long run if one expensive lasts longer than 5 cheap ones. Of course, I have no idea of build quality of anything mentioned. Me recommend? Never. Caveat emptor. Is there a clinical term for fear of ambient sounds? I mean, it's ok. I'm afraid of dressy casual social events. We all have our hang ups, I guess.

chris


grady wrote:
Looks like the updated version of the one I had for years & years. Worked just fine.

The difference between it & the one on BSW is that the one on BSW is smarter, smarter than what you're looking for. The one on BSW that's closer to what you're looking for is this one: http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=QUICKTAP

But it's still 2x as much as the Radio Shack one. It probably has a slightly better transformer in it, but given that phone audio is heavily bandwidth-limited at the telco end, using a shitty RatShack transformer isn't going to make a hell of a lot of difference.

One of these days I'll digitize the tape of my 21-year-old self interviewing Exene Cervenka & getting her so pissed off that she almost hung up on me. She was doing a solo tour that was cosponsored by Ben & Jerry's & I guess I kept calling it the Ice Cream Tour. Hoo boy, she was ticked about that.

Anyway, it was made with one of those Radio Shack doodads. Like I said, worked just fine.

Ross

thegav AT hotmail.com wrote:

Gentlemen:

Many thanks for the tips. On the off-chance that someone else might
find this string useful, I'll add this one to the mix:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2123175&cp=&origkw=phone+recorder&kw=phone+recorder&parentPage=search

Quite possibly a cheaper version of what Mr. Rossi is recommending? A
friend had pointed me toward it as a means of more directly going from
phone to computer. I have long used the "cassette recorder leaning over
next to the speakerphone" method and it works to a degree. But let's
just say the fear of ambient sounds has led me to look for
alternatives.

Many thanks,
GAVIN




On Dec 10, 11:42 am, nos... AT spacelabstudio.com (Chris Rossi) wrote:

I imagine you want something like this:

http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=TELTAP

You plug your phone through it and you get a regular audio out you can
plug into your recorder of choice.

There are a couple of other options on the right.

Googling broadcast supply will bring up other broadcast supply houses
and you can see what devices they have that do the same thing.

chris





the... AT hotmail.com wrote:

Hello, all.
I am in need of something that will allow me to simply record telephone
conversations and render the resulting sound files as MP3s. In the
journalism old-school, people had a little suction-cup tapper they'd
put on the phone while hooking the other end to a cassette recorder.
The new-school digital voice recorders seem great--and I'm on the verge
of buying one--but can anyone splain to me how I could best capture
that elusive voice on the other end of the line?
Thanks, and happy holidays.
--GAVIN
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