Getting a cell phone message out of the phone?

[takeout]

I was "serenaded" with a verse and chorus of "Stayin' Alive" by a friend of mine, in full falsetto glory. I need to preserve this.

Can I rig something out of the headset jack into an interface of some sort?

Anyone had to do this before?

[Mr. Dipity]

I was "serenaded" with a verse and chorus of "Stayin' Alive" by a friend of mine, in full falsetto glory. I need to preserve this.

Can I rig something out of the headset jack into an interface of some sort?

Anyone had to do this before?

Can you check your messages from a land line?

[takeout]

Yes.

[m_oswald]

I have a few of those seymore duncan pickups for acoustic guitar that fit in the soundhole. If you put this or any other magnetic pickup over the earpiece of the phone it picks up the sound perfectly. I found this out when I was hooking up my pickups to anything electric.I was shocked at how clearly the phone came through.

Matt

[earth tones]

No headphone out on the phone?? I have found a countless number of phone tap devices that suction on to the phone and can pick up the signal. Check for one of those at radioschlack or something.

[Mr. Dipity]

Yes.

Getting a phone tap with a line out is pretty easy - even rat shack sells them. I have one plugged into my patch bay, and save all my phone messages as a kind of diary. The messages frequently find their way into my music too.

It's not the best connection, depending on your phone line, but we are talking about an 8bit, 8khz signal to begin with, in any case.

[xonlocust]

there's also the method of turning on a microphone, holding the phone up to it, and recording it.

not being a smart ass - really. i have used this same technique before and it sounds pretty much like it should.

[joel hamilton]

I just use a foam windscree, and tape the earpiece to that so I dont get handling noise. I have even recorded conversations this way, with the mouthpiece facing someone in front to the mic, and they can hear the person on the other end with headphones, and still talk into the phone mouthpiece with the mic facing away from them to match the ear part of the cell phone.

Works great. I never use the suction cup thingies anymore because i was like "oh duh, I can use a C12 now to record a phone..." sounds just like it does when you are hearing it over the phone...

[fremitus]

i just tore the earbud off from one of those shitty hand's free jobbies they give you and wired a 1/4" jack on the cable and ran it into a D.I.. it was to get a sweet copy of a girlfriends drunken ramblings into a song. worked great.

[0xeneye]

I keep thinking of that Mike Watt / Kathleen Hanna recording.....

[NeglectedFred]

I used the phone to a mic idea just 2 weeks ago, and absolutely loved the effect it created, seriously. It was for a very similar reason. My cel phone has a speaker phone on it, so it helped a little. I really had to push my the gain on my pre's to get a good signal, I also had to crank the compression to smooth it out..

It sounded so cool that I plan to record a vocalist tracking on a land line to my voice mail, then using the same technique, I'll sync it up and Wa-la!!