Mark
Might not appeal to you but I did a series of telephone interviews,
producing very transcribable audio, by.....................taping a normal
stereo mic to the earpeice of the telephone! The mic picked up the
interviewer perfectly too. Inelegant and a pain if you had to redo it for
each interview but otherwise a very workable solution,
Trevor
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From: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:58 AM
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
LEEDS
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UK
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