Is there any way to record a telephone conversation?

DeVore · 24-01-2003 10:11pm #1

Simple question... i'd like to record a telephone conversation (with the consent of the other party) with reasonable quality.
I need to be able to get both sides of the conversation.

Any ideas?

DeV.

regi · 24-01-2003 10:14pm

STFW

Offy · 24-01-2003 10:23pm

Can be done with the Nokia 8310. Qualitys not bad but you can only record about three minutes or so. Very useful if your getting nasty calls and theres no probs with the cops.

Thorbar · 24-01-2003 10:47pm

There used to be a site called blacksomething, (blackhat or maybe blackjack) that used to have a load of great prank calls. Yer man had a detailed tutorial on how to record telephone coversations. He did one prank call to he's telephone company's help desk that spawned so many copy cat calls that then disconnected him

. Well I can't remember the name nor find it on google so I'm guessing its completely shut down or I've got the name wrong. I remember reading around 4-5 years ago.

[edit]Didn't find the old site but this should do the trick, http://www.franksworld.com/pranks/faq.html#howrecord
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Xithus · 24-01-2003 10:49pm

Sell these in Peats

Inspector Gadget · 25-01-2003 11:00pm

(...and we shouldn't really ask why you would, but...

)

I'm reliably informed that the best-of-breed telephone conversation capture devices are the so-called "WatsonLinc" type, as they don't actually interfere with the phone line electrically (some kind of inductive loop with band pass filters to get around the hybrid coder, I understand) so the (detectable) noise you'd get from something like the Peats option is eliminated. Maplin have them, but they're heart-stoppingly expensive - about 190 sterling for one like that in the link above, but comes complete with a tape deck and all the other bits - it should be possible to get the actual Watsonlinc "adaptor" on its own for a lot less.

HTH,
Gadget

sceptre · 26-01-2003 1:14am

Maplin also sell that little item Xithus gave a link to. Connect it to a sterro, press record, bob's your uncle. There are a number of software solutions (my modem seems to be able to record conversations) but assuming it's a land line call, the Xithus solution is probably the best.