How to record very faint sound from the analogue input?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 9 March 2010 10:51, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5 March 2010 18:59, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need to record a phone conversation, but the sound from the analogue
>> input is so weak that recording and playing back in Audacity I hear
>> almost nothing. How can I either boost the playback or (even better)
>> boost the input so that the file is recorded in a hearable way?
>
> This thread seems to me to be getting a bit out of control with talk
> of building amplifiers and so on.  Can we go back to the beginning and
> try again.  Where exactly is the signal coming from in the first
> place?  A quick glance back through the thread does not seem to
> discussed this, but apologies if I missed it.
>

One of these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Telephone-Phone-Line-Recorder-Adapter-RJ11-3-5mm-Audio_W0QQitemZ220567625602QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item335adadf82

I would happily buy a better model, but they all seem to be unpowered.


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