Feedback as well as help cleaning up this EVP

I ordered mine from Ghost St.Augustine in Fl and they had it to me in 4 days....they are always quick.

Thats what i was meaning by enhance, not to alter but to make an EVP easier to listen to. Bad choice of word i guess, whoops

Whoops I ment words right into my mouth sry lol

Couldn't agree with you more rob you put the words right into myopathy my friend very well spoken

When it comes to audio "Enhancement"...

First I think the term enhancement (other than conjuring nightmares of loads of Viagra spam) is a bit misleading. Because what we really are trying to stay away from is enhancing the audio, and what we're trying to achieve is to clean and reduce.

Let me elaborate a bit. I personally have no problem with removing noise, equalizing to reduce certain frequencies, slowing down, speeding up, or increasing volume. In all those instances you're not adding anything, you're simply removing clutter.

What I do have exception with is any form of manipulation which in its process adds things which were not originally there. Some forms of noise reduction do this, which is why I personally try to stay away from those. I'm sure you've heard the noise reduction which you hear squeeks and chirps. What those are doing is searching for frequency patterns, removing the base frequencies and then creating a new wave pattern with just those frequencies.

The problem with that is that definition of white noise is a semi-random sound pattern in which the average amplitude of all frequencies is roughly equal. The key there being "average". So you could conceivably have spots which have common frequencies above a certain threshold. The noise removal formulas mentioned above would hone in on that cluster, and turn it into a single frequency "Chirp". Sometimes you have to use it, but I try to minimize when it must be used.

And above all, I think its important (as I have mentioned previously) to include a full length raw version of the EVP recording. And also any supporting video. The more contextual information can be provided, the more likely it is that the listener can make their own informed decision.

Crystalcross thank you for cleaning that up, it sounds so clear. I hear just after Sissy a voice deep voice saying something like, "Mr. Cain" or "Just decay" lol something of that nature. My name is DJ, and i did ask can you say that again, could it maybe be , "Yes DJ"? lol

Few questions,

So we have spoke about high quality and low quality recorders. How about the audio enhancement softwares? I use audacity just to amplify and attempt removal (audacity is weird sometimes it removes well, sometimes its completley F#$%#$ lol) What do you prefer?

2nd Iburyem, where can i get my hands on one of those P-SB7's? LOL I sometimes don't trust ebay, plus if i order one, i cant wait for it to arrive. Im like a kid on christmas, "WAKE UPPPPP MAHHHH WAKE UPPP CAN I OPEN MY GIFTS NOW!?!?!" LOL

3rd,I really like the sweep rate on those things. My first make shift ghost box was one of those arm strap am/fm radios you get from radio shack, cant remember the model # off hand. It has a very slow sweep, a little faster when holding down the sweep button, but none the less it was slower than a P-SB7. I still got some interesting responses. My question is do you think that there are different ways a spirit could manipulate the ghost box of that nature to where it can get bits and pieces of radio stations/frequencies to state a response besides the definite response of them using their actual voice much like the PSB7 can aquire? Awhile back i posted an EVP thread title called MIKES HARD LEMONADE. This is a prime example of my question, i asked what kind of beer i was drinking, not once but twice we heard, in different waves/frequencies/stations, it say the words mikes hard lemonade. Very odd, maybe coincidence. Tell me your opinions.

Thanks again for listening and glad this thread has gotten lots of pros n cons. GREAT imput!!

to be honest i think alot of it has to do with the person using it too iburyem anyone can do it but there is a right way and a wrong way depends on how long person been working with evps

i agree you can catch evps with both, but do the ones on the low end have lower sound quality when you get an evp? or the evp comes through crystal clear, where no distortion level has to be changed?

I know they arent the best for catching regular audio of the investigators or noises that are audible from activity (excluding evp) like voices and noises you hear with your ears.

Honestly... I have a cheap digital recorder, but I researched it before I bought it, so I dont generally have sound quality issues ( unless its with the ghost box)


Now some of my fellow investigators use the cheap Olympus and expensive ones.. the cheap ones you can barely make out anything, and the EVPS are garbled too, but I notice the ones that are somewhat audible still arent crystal clear,,, but where mine will do high frequency bursts they will pick up some in their static noise....

Wow everyone a little frisky tonight lol looks like its been a long day ill go on the record as saying i have used high and low end recorders and it really dosent make a difference im not saying im an expert lol but this is my area where im pretty strong in with evps so this is a touchy subject for me