Recording a voice message
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Humanwire
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I would first turn down the volume of the speakerphone on your phone, to reduce distortion caused by playing it from the little speaker in your phone. Secondly, I would find the quietest room available near your computer (or how ever far your mic cable is), like a closet or something. Recording in a bedroom, on top of a bed works the best if the room is quiet because of the next suggestion. Bury the cell phone and the microphone under a huge pile of blankets and pillows, so that the microphone only pics up the sound of the cellphone that it is next to. All of the blankets surrounding it soak up the sound, and keep out the room reverb, so you're only recording the sound of the phone itself.
David W. Richardson
Chapelgrove Films
Why wouldn't you just record it with a regular mic and recorder, and then apply effects/EQ to it in post to make it sound like it was a voicemail/speakerphone bit?
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
On that same note you can get a mini to mini phone jack cable and go direct from the phone. It's a little tricky if you don't make a custom cable since the headphone signal is on the ring not the tip so you need to pull the plug part way out, but for this short a use it will work.
Guy_Cochran
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There is a company called JK Audio that makes these types of devices. I have a demo up on youtube that may help. It's of the $59 QuickTap where you can hear the quality...and see how it connects.
Why wouldn't he just hit play on the answering machine and record it with a microphone? Practical effects are sometimes the best, and the easiest
You are overthinking this. Play the machine and record it, and it will sound just like an answering machine!
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
It didn't actually sound like he wanted it to sound "just like an answering machine". But if he does then go for it. If your trying to get as good a sound as poss (and that is what he asked for) then you need some kind of direct link that bypasses the crappy earpiece in the celphone.
David W. Richardson
Chapelgrove Films
Why wouldn't he just hit play on the answering machine and record it with a microphone? Practical effects are sometimes the best, and the easiest
You are overthinking this. Play the machine and record it, and it will sound just like an answering machine!
As always, there is 'real' reality and there is 'movie' reality. I'm not sure I'd want the answering machine in my movie to sound just like the one in my living room. That one sounds like crap. I'd rather start with the best possible sound and tweak it down to the best simulation of an answering machine -- but something that could be clearly understood, unlike the machine in my living room.
But that's just me