surripere Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hi A colleague at work is planning on doing some phone interviews with a RH910, she's getting the adaptor that links to the phone. My question is, should the lead from the adaptor go to the mic or the line in. I think line in. Any experience or thoughts.Any help appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killroy Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hi,best way will be to simply try it out! You should start with connecting the adapter to line-in and make a test recording. If you cannot achieve a sufficient recording level there, then switch to mic-in with mic sensitivity set to "low". If this is still too quiet, switch to "high" sensitivity.Cheers - Killroy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hi A colleague at work is planning on doing some phone interviews with a RH910, she's getting the adaptor that links to the phone. My question is, should the lead from the adaptor go to the mic or the line in. I think line in. Any experience or thoughts.Any help appreciatedJust curious: what is the model/make of the adaptor?I've been interested in a device for illegally recording loved ones and not quite sure how they work/connect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Just curious: what is the model/make of the adaptor?I've been interested in a device for illegally recording loved ones and not quite sure how they work/connect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Here's the classic suction-cup pickup:http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...rentPage=searchOr this one that gets the signal from the line:http://www.shop.com/op/~Gemini_Automatic_T...73-prod-9111252Probably mic-in for both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 I can confirm that the suction-cup model needs mic-in... I've had one of those things for years. Never used the other models.MiniDisco has this model available: http://www.minidisco.com/tr-70.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 How's the sound quality of these suction cup things? You basically attach a microphone to the housing of the telephone receiver? I remember disassembling a telephone a few years ago and connecting the speaker's positive and negative cable to the line- or mic-in (i don't remember exactly) of a cassette deck. It worked like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 (edited) The sound quality is surprisingly clean. I think it works much in the same way putting an electric guitar's pickup near a phone receiver does... In other words it won't record anything if you yell at it, unless you're yelling at it through the phone. Here's an excerpt I found online regarding this suction-cup style apparatus... Apparently it may not work as well on newer and/or cordless phones:Some telephone amplifiers use small inductive pickup coil connected to headset near the spaker using suction cup. This inductive pickup pics the small changes of magnetic fields which the telephone speaker causes. In this way it is possible to get rocording of both sides of conversation, because some part of the speech which the telephone picrophone pics can be heard from speaker side of telephone. The inductive pickups don't generally work very well and they must be placed quite carefully to get best results. Still they are quite prone to external interference and do not work well with modern telephones which have small speakers (and smaller magnetic fields).Aside from the spelling errors I think it explains it pretty well. Edited January 11, 2006 by raintheory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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