Dear Mark
I carried out telephone interviews using the Olympus DS 300 with a Lanier Telephone Coupler acts as an interface between phone and Olympus. I had effortless high quality recording via this route. We also had a digital phone, which I think also helped.
Lanier offer three couplers with differing connections and their address is Lanier Worldwide Inc, 2300 Parkdale Drive, Atlanta, GA 30345-2979 . Sorry don't have web address but I am sure they will have one.
Hope this helps
Regards
Tracy
Tracy Long
Senior Research Fellow
School of Nursing and Midwifery
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
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From: Mark Priestley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 January 2005 11:58
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Subject: recording telephone interviews?
Hi
I wonder if anyone can help me with an annoying technical problem. We recently moved over from minidisk to Olympus DS-2200 digital recorder for interviews, which is great quality and interfaces easily with the PC etc. However, when we tried to use this for telephone interviews we ran into a major problem.
The input socket on the recorder works perfectly with the external stereo mic plugged in but doesn't work at all (or shorts out?) when the mono plug from the telephone adaptor is plugged in. No recording and it degrades the telephone signal. A stereo plug adaptor doesn't solve the problem. For the moment, we've had to revert to copying minidisks again (aaargh!).
Can anyone suggest a solution or recommend a digital recorder that actually works with a telephone adaptor! :o)
Best wishes
Mark Priestley
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
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UK
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