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For those who find the earplug hard to fit in the ear, here’s a hint: reach your opposite arm up and over your head, grab the back of your ear near the top, and lift. Using your other hand, insert the earplug in your ear.
As for the TP7, this is a terrific product – basically it is a microphone shaped like an earpiece, with the microphone pickup on the “out” side of the earpiece and an earplug shape on the “in” side. After you put it in your ear you hold the phone to (or wear a headset over) that same ear and it can pick up both sides of the conversation.
The cord is 5 feet long, just right for my needs.
On the days you choose to use a speaker phone you can use the TP7 as a regular microphone: place it on the table about 18″ away from the speakerphone and it can pick up the voices on the speakerphone plus everyone in the room.
Last, here’s a way to use a PC to make a recording, without a digital voice recorder.
- find a tool for recording (such as the free version of Audacity, look for the official download site)
- start the tool and select the mic input (“Jack Mic”)
- plug the microphone into the microphone jack on your PC
- if “Audio System Event” appears, select “Microphone”
- when you are ready to record, go to Audacity and press the record button
- when you want to stop recording, go to Audacity and press stop button
- export the file in your preferred format before starting another session
I have no comparison for quality of the recordings, but will say that I am recording meetings (with permission
and have no trouble hearing everyone clearly during playback.
I used this microphone to record phone interviews for a school project. Used in conjunction with an Olympus digital voice recorder. Sound quality was good, and nothing was missed. All you do is plug the microphone in to one of the jacks on the recorder, and it’s ready to go!
Let me echo several reviewers before me and say that this product is well worth it for the price. I was inches from purchasing a pricey, bulky two-way recorder from some pseudo-spy website when I stumbled onto this little device. It honestly couldn’t be simpler: plug one end into the microphone jack of your recording device, place the earbud in your ear, and the thing’s ready to use. I’ve found the sound quality to be perfectly adequate for my reporting purposes, though it seems to depend somewhat on the quality of the phone call as well. Highly recommended for anyone in need of recording conversations. It’s lightweight, portable, simple, and does the job well.
I like this device so much that have ordered a spare; because if it breaks, I don’t want to be without it for even one day. Not that I expect it to break, but nothing lasts forever, and I use it a lot. I use it with my Olympus WS-331M digital voice recorder and it works perfectly. I’m amazed at how clear the recordings are.
A lot of people have commented the it records their voice louder than the voice of the other person. That isn’t dependent solely on this device: it also depends on how loud you talk, how close you hold the phone to your mouth, and, on some phones, the volume setting of the phone. I get different results depending on all of these factors, but the difference is never so much that the recordings are difficult to listen to.
The wire is short enough that I’ve pulled my recorder off my desk when reaching for something. That’s no fun when it happens in the middle of a call, so watch out for that.
For the technologically challenged, this is how it works: you plug one end of the cable into the “mic”
outlet of your recording device, and put the little mic at the other end in your inner ear. Then
you put your phone headset up to the same ear the mic is in, and the little mic picks up both
sides of the conversation. (I’d used earlier generation products that required plugging wires into the phone
and was temporarily flummoxed — couldn’t figure
out how it worked.) I’ve just used it once so far in a test, but it’s simple and easy even for me.