NEED ADVICE please help me out

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ey folks, i just ran into this site in a time of need. i hope there's some people with knowledge that won't mind droppin some on me.
okay i had this idea to use an old chordless telephone (it being chordless is a bad idea as far as power goes i know but it's the only spare i could find) and i wanted to some how use the mic and the output to record. i took the casing off of the phone alread and i see that the thing you listen to is just a tiny speaker with two small chords, i don't know if those are like left and right- if for some reason someone could confirm or debunk that i'd appreciate it. anyway. and i got a headphone to cassette hooked up to my double tape deck stereo and i was thinking i'd have to strip the chords and twist the headphones to cassette with the two chords i see going to the ear piece of the phone and at some point figure out how to get it to pick up the sound to my guitar just right. i thought of this idea because i'd be talking to people on the phone playing my guitar unpluged and they could still hear me. once i used a cellphone to record my guitar being played through a bass amp and it gave it it's own distortion and sounded alright. i don't have a cellphone anymore so that's trashed. so i wanted to make my own. any ideas from you guys would be awesome. thanks for reading this long rant by the way. PLEASE HELP.
 
wow, po-boy DIY. Go to a fleamarket and get a tape recorder.
 
i got one of those somewhere but i like the weird distorted sound of the phone, especially the voice, it adds something to even the most normal persons voice that i like. thanks for the reply though man
 
Do a normal recording, filter out the highs and lows to taste, add some distortion, and you're on the right track.
 
damn you folks on here are quick on the draw but i think you guys like nice stuff, i want it to sound like shit kinda, low fi as hell. i think i'd be awesome if when i burned it onto CDs it sounded like you heard me playing it through the phone to you, just with the audio hooked right up to the phone instead of through the mic secondary if you know what i mean. if i can't make my own device i'll end up doing just what you said thanks man.
 
Well, a telephone mic is about as low-fi as you can get - they cost the manufacturers about a nickel and have a very limited frequency range - because transmitting voice over telephone lines doesn't have much of a frequency response anyway.

The speaker in the handset has two wires, one positive, one ground, and the microphone should have two wires also, one is signal and supply voltage and the other is ground.

A coupling capacitor is required between the mic's signal output and whatever you plug that into, as the DC supply voltage (usually about 2-3 volts is all that's necessary) goes between the capacitor and the microphone.

This powers the mic but the capacitor blocks the DC voltage and only lets the AC mic signal through.
 
I'm lousy with phones in terms of the technology but if all else fails, there's a couple of things you could try for a trashy sound. I've no idea how to do this but if you could somehow hook your guitar through an old cassette player so the cassette player acts as a kind of speaker......
Or you could play guitar through an amp but record it with headphones instead of a microphone. Literally use the headphones like they were a mic, plugged into whatever mic inputs you have.
Trashy ? Your neighbours will drum you out of town ! :D
 
... change your user name....

Oh, you mean recording advice. Sorry.

WTF does everyone want everything to sound BAD this week...
 
Just a heads up - although the microphones and speakers are low-fi, the majority of the "telephone" sound is the limited bandwidth.

The sampling rate of the telephone system is 8 KHz, meaning that the signal is band limited to 4 KHz. So... I would recommend just recording with any old microphone, and using a low pass filter which attenuates steeply at 4 KHz.

Due to the effects of the poor microphone and speaker, you're not going to get much low end, so I'd also use a high pass filter which attenuates steeply at 300-500 Hz.

HTH
 
no it's due to lack of funds and i'd be kidding myself if i was going to try and record the next whitney houston track
 
frederic is the only person who gave me and real information, everybody else just gave me bullshit, i found what i needed on youtube. these forums are just an excuse for know-it-alls to be smart asses to people who literally asked for it i guess. i'm on my way to doing what i want, armistice mjbpictures why bother flirting, just fuck eachother already.
 
AntiSocialScum said:
frederic is the only person who gave me and real information, everybody else just gave me bullshit, i found what i needed on youtube. these forums are just an excuse for know-it-alls to be smart asses to people who literally asked for it i guess. i'm on my way to doing what i want, armistice mjbpictures why bother flirting, just fuck eachother already.
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Grow up.

The advice I gave was informative and educational.

Your post too was educational. I've learned that you are in fact a cock.

Don't post on the board asking for help again, you'll not get a response.
 
I thought I was being helpful !
That'll teach me.
 
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