Re: Recording a Telephone Interview

"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rick Powell <rkpowell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think they want broadcast quality. It's about a 30-45 minute
interview between my next door neighbor and an interviewer in NYC, and
strangely, they want ME to record the thing out here in remoteland
instead of at the caller end, where there's probably 100 capable
places within a stone's throw of the interviewer. I have long agoo
ceased to question my potential clients' motives or methods.

Ahh! Throw up an RE-20 on the neighbor and roll tape. Send them the
recording and have them edit in the interviewer's questions. There is
no read for the telephone to be involved at all.

As fate would have it, I am located about 40 miles from JK Audio in
Sandwich, IL which is one of the leading manufacturers of telephone-
audio interfaces, and I didn't even know they existed til today. I
would like to rent or borrow one of those Innkeepers from JK, but I
can't see buying it for a one-off. I suppose I could put it on ebay
after the project if I had to buy it.

http://www.jkaudio.com/assets/pdf/user_guides/innkeeper1x-1rx-1006p.pdf

To be honest, if you only care about the far side of the conversation,
there's no reason not to just use a straight transformer interface rather
than anything fancy. Record the phone line to one channel, and the
mike to the other, and they'll probably just use the phone feed as a guide
track anyway.

I don't know what will be used on the other end yet, but I'm thinking
a Sennheiser 421 on this end. The Innkeeper has a built in mic pre
and XLR mix and caller feeds. Even if the other end is a telephone, I
think this would produce a lot higher quality audio than one of those
$20 Rat Shack gizmos.

421 is fine. But, I suspect it doesn't matter how high quality the phone
line signal is, because it'll only be used as a guide track. The $20
gizmo will be fine, and what is important is that you get a good track
of your neighbor.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

This is what several of us have been saying. Unless I missed it, we still
don't know for sure what the client wants. Maybe the OP will chime in with
the answers.

Steve King


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  • Re: Recording a Telephone Interview
    ... I think they want broadcast quality. ... places within a stone's throw of the interviewer. ... Throw up an RE-20 on the neighbor and roll tape. ... C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." ...
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  • Re: Recording a Telephone Interview
    ... Is this just to transcribe it or does it need to be broadcast quality? ... The right way to it is with a hybrid, with an interviewer on a microphone ... audio interfaces, and I didn't even know they existed til today. ... would like to rent or borrow one of those Innkeepers from JK, ...
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