getting telephone interview online

[Trenna]

I am recording a telephone interview using a telephone to "recorder" connector. Now the question is, what type of recorder should I use?

It seems that the voice digital recorders only output in .wma and I want
to use mp3. I know enough to know that just converting it is not what I
want.

Should I go that route, or use an analog recorder and record it onto the computer through the audio line with SoundForge 8 (which I'm pretty
familiar with, though haven't recorded from audio line in )

Are there not too expensive audio recorders that output in RCA Audio?

Many thanks,
Trenna

[Tifstorey]

Although i've never done anything like this, i would be tempted to run it through my computer. That way you have more flexibility in terms of editing and changing the formats (especially if your familiar with SoundForge).

What makes you not want to convert the file to mp3?

[daav]

You will probabaly want to record to wav files, then convert the wavs to MP3.

There are direct to mp3 recorders available, but I doubt if the quality will be as good and you will be going to great expense to skip a 2 min step in converting to MP3 that can be done with audacity for free, for instance.

daav

[TragikRemix]

behringer uca202 is USB interface with rca's.

no comment regarding behringer though...
it is like $35.00..