recording from telephone

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Hello all-
I'm new and am putting myself out to feel extra blonde here...but I am wondering about using your telephone to record. I work for a radio station and we have to record our customers voice over the phone for commercials from time to time. I know how to do this however, when I do the sound is just crap. Too quiet, too much squealing when I try to turn anything up on my board or dat. It almost sounded like her phone volume was too high and on certain words it is very distorted.

Is there anything I can do or where in my manual can I look. My ex-boss is an idiot and he said it was job security so he didn't show me jack! I have
CEP v1.2 (this was my choice b/c it's easy for me to understand and I've been workin with it for a little while).

Thanks for any advice or suggestions!
 
hey man. i dont think there is a way to record from your telephone with CEP 2.0, because to record from your telephone, you would need to records straight off your modem, and your modem must be plugged into a phone jack, and CEP does not support modem recording. there is, however, a pretty good software out there that lets you record telephone conversation to standard .wav files. it is called Call Corder. there is a freeware of it up somewhere on the internet. you should try that.
 
hi,

i don't know how to record straight to cooledit either, but to record from the phone i use a phone control from radio shack, and i plug it into my 4-track. then you can open it in cooledit and make it sound better if you need to. it's $15
 
Some cordless phones come with headphones jacks... which would be able to plug directly in and use CoolEdit to clean it up a bit. You could also get one with a speaker phone and mic that... that usually works pretty well for me.
 
Hi,
The issue that you are dealing with (I think) :confused: comes down to signal processing differences between phone and audio equipment in general. There is some decent equipment that you may want to look at for longer term use at the radio station. Take a look at the items at http://www.jkaudio.com/ . This will give you a good idea of what I am talking about. The Broadcast Host and InnKeeper product along with a multitude of others in their catalog really take on this problem and allow you to go directly into your system so recordings should be well balanced without a lot of echo and feedback problems. It is well worth it to download their pdf catalog because there are a number of products that they have for different scales of application.

Good luck,
kmnaudio
 
A drummer I used to play with, his father was an electrician and would re-wire his broken microphones for him. He asked him to wire a telephone to be a microphone and he refused to do it saying it would sound awful! I thought it was a cool idea for vocals
 
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