Help! Famous person and an answerphone message

Oriel

Folks,
I'll keep this short.
Somebody famous just phoned my brother to talk to him (he's a big fan of this guy) but he was out at the time, so he left an answerphone message.
My brother wants to save this message onto some other medium, as the answerphone doesn't have a tape - just a chip.
However, there is no other output jack on the answerphone, so can you think of another way to get this from the phone to, e.g. a computer? i.e. can we send this to another number, where we can record it to another answerphone or just straight to a computer?

Cheers,
S.

P.S. The famous person is an older world-wide music celebrity not friggin' David Beckham or anything like that, so get down girls.

fade2black

Kenny Rogers rings me all the time, don't worry, he'll call back.

koneko

You could play it back and record it with a mic hooked up to a soundcard (hold it near the answermachine), but the quality wouldn't be great.

Oriel

I've (obviously) thought about the whole mic thing, but I'm looking to get a direct recording from it, to cut out the interfernce etc...like ripping a CD to mp3, rather than holding a mic up to the cd player and recording the wav file.
I'm sure the speaker on the answerphone isn't a Shure SM58 or anything...

Cheers though!
S.

nesf

Could you do something like hooking the answering machine upto a laptop and using some kind of phone answering program thingy? I'm not sure tbh.

funk-you

try connecting the answering machine an pc via the RJ-45 connectors(phone line) should work but you'll still only get telephone quality.

StupidLikeAFox

Drop names, im guessing mick jagger.....?

Long shot but still

Phibsboro

I'm sure the speaker on the answerphone isn't a Shure SM58 or anything...

As I'm sure you now realise, the SM58 is in fact a microphone...

I can't see how the rj45 thing is going to work. Your best bet is just to record it off the machine. Google however suggests if the machine plays the message through the handset (which should be possible on most modern machines) then try a handset recording doda like this...

http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?MSCSProfile=745D84CBF04D14A48AA6FF9C89D722C0BA68C1B04FE384678A5285FCD6E056B17AF21627FDABE316B90B3C038D68EBD6B7F9F3BD1712EAA9951ACB2590A05C6517EFE46941FEFDD1985D4EFD6321F5E70B4DE9B6C1D45512DCD9FB3DBCACB947E2394767F6BFEAA6B4FA64A6442DF56EC0F45F041CD74F6D87D410A042AA497BB4D7CA4B28E58C42&cookie%5Ftest=1&catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F008%5F008%5F012%5F001&product%5Fid=43%2D1237

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joejoem

Was it Elvis?

MrJoeSoap

Wee Daniel O'Donnell?

joejoem

Oo Oo was it George Murphy?

nobodythere

If it's that important cut the speaker wires on the answering machine, solder them up to some audio cable with a jack at the end that will go into your sound card.

Ba-da-bing, ba da boom!

Pigman II

I'm no expert and have never done it myself but can't computers be used for voice over IP these days? Perhaps you could set up your computer to ring your voicemail and then record using the standard wav recorders etc

colm_c

We've got a thingy in work that you can plug into the handset cord, and has a standard audio out jack (so we can record people on the phone for interviews and stuff)...

If you can listen to it over the handset, then this should work perfectly...

Here's something similar to what we have
http://www.dynametric.com/cassetterecorderpatch.asp

I think there's an electronic place on the Quays that sells them.

I can probably get a lend of it for an evening next week. PM me if you're interested...

Oriel

joejoem wrote:

Was it Elvis?

Close, but not that dead yet.
It was Brian Wilson (of Beach Boys fame).
Thanks for the replies, but I think I'm just going to have to go with the old microphone against the speaker job.

Cheers,
S.

Oriel

Phibsboro wrote:

As I'm sure you now realise, the SM58 is in fact a microphone...

Blonde moment... :rolleyes:

The General

was it Bob Marley

zAbbo

funk-you wrote:

try connecting the answering machine an pc via the RJ-45 connectors(phone line) should work but you'll still only get telephone quality.

FYI: RJ-45(ethernet) / RJ-11(phone line)

Thrasher

Hi Sinecurea,

One last alternative you may consider - but this depends on your answering machine make/model:

Some answering machines have a facility to dial in and listen to your messages from a remote location (e.g. ring your home number and hit #5, or some PIN).

If your answering machine does have this facility, you can call up your number via a remote PC with modem (using SkypeOut or some other shareware dialling application - there are plenty). Enter the PIN for your answering machine and make sure you have configured an application to record the message that is played back. (e.g. make sure that all digital audio is recordable in e.g. Windows Sound Recorder).

/T

ferdi

brian wilson, COOL!!!!

Cungi

Pigman II wrote:

.. Perhaps you could set up your computer to ring your voicemail and then record using the standard wav recorders etc

Think you might be on to something there!

Mr. Presentable

Your brother isn't Van Morrison by any chance??

Oriel

I thought about the remote location idea, but I'm not sure if I'd be able to navigate the menus and stuff like that. Hmmm, will give it some thought though. Cheers!

nobodythere

Is there an audio out on the answering machine?

Gone West

It was me. tbh.
the real joe dolan.

Oriel

No audio out, no.

Thrasher

An interesting report on Yahoo News that may (or may not) be related:

Yahoo report on Brian Wilson cold calling...

/T

Oriel

Thrasher wrote:

An interesting report on Yahoo News that may (or may not) be related:

Yahoo report on Brian Wilson cold calling...

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Yep, same thing.

Sam Vimes

maplin electronics sells a thing that you plug out the handset of the phone and put this in between it and the base and it basically goes out to a 3.5mm jack. done and done

edit:http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46963&doy=25m9