'Live' EVP Recording

You may have already heard of LIVE EVP recording, but if you haven’t, it’s fascinating.  Some voice recorders will now let you listen ‘real time’ to what you are recording.  This allows the investigator to actually HEAR when he or she captures an EVP.  Plug your earphones into the recorder, hit RECORD and voila, you can hear everything.

Now, this is not to say that every EVP comes through crystal clear.  The EVP quality is almost the same as when you are reviewing recorded audio data from an investigation.  However, if you have the sound turned up on your recorder, some of them do come through quite well.  The quality also depends on the strength of the entity trying to communicate.  If they entity is weak, you will get a weak EVP.  If the entity is strong, you will get a strong EVP.

This does allow us as investigators to listen for EVPs in real time and spend more time in areas where they are prevalent.  With normal recording (without listening live), we wonder around a room, or building asking questions,   hoping that we are capturing spirit communications and much later spending hours sifting through data hoping to find something.  Using live EVP recording allows us more focus and the potential to capture more data.

If you don’t like listening live to everything going on during an investigation, there is also a device called an EFP (EVP Field Processor).  What this device does is hooks up through the audio jack of your recorder. As you record, it has an illuminated scale on the face of the device that lights up when there is a frequency that coincides with the EVP phenomenon.  Using the illuminated scale on the EFP also allows you to record on video when and where your data was captured, for later reference.

Not all voice recorders allow you to monitor what you are recording, so you have to be careful which you pick.  If you are an investigator or, you just want to try this, I suggest you test your current recorder first.  Grab a pair of headphones, plug them in, hit the RECORD button and turn the sound up.  If it doesn’t work, then research on the internet which ones do have this feature.  Myself, I have a Sony ICD-PX312 (pictured above) and it works amazingly well.  This is a new tool in the arsenal of the paranormal investigator that allows us to focus on what we are out there trying to do…capture better data. 

If any of you out there try this and like it or buy an EFP and use it, please send me an email at paul@paranormalx.org.  I would love to hear what you think about it.

Paul Cagle

www.aenigmaproject.org