recording from phone

[Luke Davis]

I have never had good experiences with the transeducer style phone 
pickups.  There is always a buz, the voices are frequently difficult to 
make out, and as Greg said, getting them to stay connected to the back of 
your receiver, is usually a losing battle.

Some places sell a little device, that connects between the receiver and 
the base, which can be plugged into a recorder.  They are okay, but also 
aren't the best, and they only work on a system, where the handset is only 
a speaker and microphone, not the type with dialing apperatis, and most of 
the other phone functions, in the handset.

These can be had from C. Crane (800-522-TUNE).

The best way I have found, is to use a device that is designed to connect 
to the phone system directly, and not to any particular phone.  That is, 
the sort that plug into a telephone wall jack.
There are tape recorders made for this (I think C. Crane's Versacorder can 
do this, but I'm not certain), and there are also small devices that 
interface to a tape recorder, or other recording system, which you 
provide.  That is the kind I have currently.  Cost about fourty bucks 
including shipping, and worked quite well.

I get my stuff of this kind, from:

http://www.spytechagency.com

Luke


On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> My experience with those has been that:
>
> 1. The quality of the recording isn't as good as I think it could
>   be.
>
> 2. I've found a very limited amount of hand sets that the cup will
> actually suction to. The ear piece part has to have a perfectly flat
> plain a bit bigger then the cup's size, otherwise, it won't stay
> attached. There are supposedly things that are a tape deck, to which
> you attach the phone line, and then you attach the phone. Sort of like
> a record-only answering machine that doesn't pick up the phone and
> play a greeting. However, I've never used one of these.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:49:10AM -0400, Jared Stofflett wrote:
>> How about a phone aptch? It's a suction cup that sticks on the back of the
>> phone, and plugs into a standard microphone jack, and records the audio as
>> if it's a microphone.
>>
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