Portable Audio Studio In a Box

So you want to record a Podcast or just your memoir, but don't have a sound studio. I've been relegated to my living room or den. But, I really hate it with my recording has the hum of the AC and ganging pots and pans rattled by the dishwasher.

Tom from Rapid e-Learning suggested that lining a cardboard box with a sound absorbing material makes a decent sound deadening device. I tried it with a Blue Corp Snowball mic which is for Pod casting. It worked well because it isolated my cardioid mic more from the ambient room noise.

Ear Microphone for the Digital Audio Recorder

I purchased an ear bud microphone from B&H Photo-Video. It records well the voice coming through my cell phone, but it does a poor job or recording my voice.

The Google phone purchased by a friend of mine seems to have a good speaker on it and may provide a better way to record both sides of a conversation.

You may recall that my desire to record a cell phone conversation is to capture the natural voice of the person that I am interviewing on the phone. Capturing the natural voice of the interviewee gives the listener a much better feeling of who that person is.

Cheers, R. Allen Walker

How to record a cell phone conversation?

So you want to produce your autobiography using multimedia?

One of the excellent techniques for gathering background information on your parents is talking to you aunts, uncles, 1st and 2nd cousins, and family friends. But what if they don't live close by? Call them up on the phone; this is the 21st Century after all. But this is a multimedia production, I want to use their real voice. Ah ha. So how do I record the conversation so I can achieve good quality audio? Grand Central voice recording or a device that fits in you ear and plugs into your Olympus Digital Voice Recorder.

Here is a link to a report by Derek Semmler, on how to solve this problem: http://dereksemmler.com/2008/02/26/how-to-record-a-cellphone-conversation/

Cheers, R Allen Walker, M. Ed. Instructional Designer