The most important equipment to record audio interviews?

This is what I use and I think they are the most important tools I use to make my audio interview recordings. I use a simple Sony digital recorder. I probably got it six years ago from Circuit City, which is now closing down here in San Diego. I paid, I think, $ 90. So it’s a Sony digital recorder. The model no. it is stereo ICD-ST10. You can hit Ebay, do a search. You can go to Radio Shack. Then you will need something to record your audio digitally. Now there are other methods to do it. There are things that you can connect to your phone and your computer, things that are much more complicated when you have two channels, big microphones and all that.

But I’m just using this simple little recorder. It takes two AAA batteries and the thing has only failed me once. Here is what I did. I recorded the interview and then to get the interview out of your recorder you have to connect your Sony to your computer’s USB port and then save the file to an MP3 file.

Then you will need something to capture your audio interview. You’re going to need the good old phone. I use a Radio Shack phone. I’ve probably had this for fifteen years and I’ll tell you that you want to test the phone that you have when you’re recording because I had a problem with this phone, it was making a lot of creaking and I didn’t ‘I don’t know what it was so I looked for new phones and went to Wal-Mart.

You want to use a corded phone, you don’t want a cordless phone, and you don’t want a cell phone. I bought a corded phone from Radio Shack, one of the newer ones, and I bought one from Wal-Mart and then I tested the sound quality on them and it was definitely different than what I use. So I’m in a small office some days and the main phone that I usually use is at my home, so I unplugged my home phone and brought it here to my office because it has a different ringing than my office phone.

So find a phone. Garage sales are a great place. I think if you choose the older ones, sometimes the older ones get a little better, but you can certainly find some old corded phones, if you don’t have a corded phone, on Craig’s List or eBay and play around with them. and try it.

Then you are going to need a phone. You are going to need a digital recorder. You will also need this device to capture the recordings, I get it from Radio Shack and it will have the exact URL and resource page, but it connects to your digital recorder and then connects to the back of the phone. And so this allows you to record both sides of the conversation, and it costs about twenty dollars. I looked it up yesterday, it’s only twenty bucks. And you’ll see exactly what I use to get the recordings out of the other side, so I can record you right then.

And then you have an editing software if you want to edit it. You don’t have to edit your recordings. I like to edit them, but I use what I learned and what I feel comfortable with. It is a version of Gold Wave. If you go to Goldwav, I use its version 4.26. They have two or three new versions after that and it’s really hard to find version 4.26. But I am trained in that, it is very easy to work with him.

But that’s all you need is some equipment to record, capture, and edit your audio. And soon you’ll be recording, producing, and editing audio interviews like a pro.