General Questions

GhostBuster1907 · Posted: Jul Sat 28, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: General Questions

Not sure where to ask these questions but i said what the heck ask the experts, I've been wanting to try taking some evp's but not sure how to. Can I just use a regualr mini recorder? And if so I've heard you had to have some background noise like a fan turned on or something is that true? Also i wanna try taking pics of various locations like cemetaries etc. But i've read in posts that a digital camera is not a good camera to use what type of camera do u suggest. I find this website very interesting, and i'm gonna give the link to my some of my friends that are into paranormal. I hope to find this website around for a long time thnx for your time
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Aedryan Methyus · Posted: Jul Sat 28, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

Hey GB,
In regards to your question about EVP Recorders, it doesn't take anything special. Any old cassette recorder with an external mic will work. For the sake of simplicity, convenience, practicality and higher quality however, I highly recommend digital audio recorders.

Personally, I use an Olympus VN480-PC and I highly recommend it. It can record up to 480 minutes of audio without ever missing a beat and it plugs right into a USB port, which makes transferring your audio on to your PC for analyzing, a snap. I paid $100.00 for mine at Radio Shack, but I recently discovered that quite a few people on Ebay are blowing out refurbished ones for like $30.00 or something. Can't beat that!

Either way, just be sure to turn off the voice activated feature, if whatever recorder you use has it. Otherwise, you will probably miss a lot of EVP's. For analyzing and enhancing your EVP's, I can't recommend Cool Edit Pro enough!

What type of camera do I suggest?.... None! I've said this repeatedly throughout the forum, but here goes again - The SHGHRS and others have debunked nearly every photographic and video "anamoly" in existence. It has literally gotten to the point that it's not even worth the time, work and money involved in taking photos or shooting video during investigations and reviewing them.

The best advice I could possibly give you would be to focus your energy on EVP's and possibly do some dabbling in ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication). If you feel you just HAVE to get a camera, expect to spend a few hundred bucks on AT LEAST a 7 + megapixel digital camera and a high quality external flash. Otherwise, taking dark, low quality, pixelated photos truely is a complete waste of time. You'll need to spend about another $100.00 of memory cards as well.

I hope this helps....

- Aedryan
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GhostBuster1907 · Posted: Jul Sat 28, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:

Thank you aedryan you were a great help and i'll take your advice and try to stay clear of the photography. I'll concentrate on the evp's. I'll do some search on ebay for a recorder tonight and see what i come up with and just as soon as I get a recorder I'll share with you all my findings if any at all. thank you again.
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