The early researchers such as Dr. Konstantin Raudive (pictured here) and Friedrich Juergenson used reel to reel tape recorders.After that for many years casette tape recorders were widely used, and sometimes still are.
More recently small digital hand held voice recorders have become very popular, as they have many advantages, particularly easy transportation.
It seems that any device capable of recording sound can be used for EVPs. What is needed is some kind of background noise which the entities use to form the words. This can be internal noise in the recorder or recording medium (such as the white noise on recording tape or the internal noise in digital recorders on their low quality long play settings) Noise such as the hum of fans or running water or recorded crowd babble can also be used. The above methods are now regarded as "traditional"
More recently other methods based on radio sound are becoming very popular. In particular a method known as "radio sweep" is giving very good results for many people, myself included. The method consists of turning a radio tuning dial while recording to any recording device. It must be turned fast enough so that no individual words from broadcasts are recorded.The entities make use of the word fragments to leave messages on the recorder. Sometimes the messages seem to "float"over the recorded sound.
CLICK HERE to hear a sample I recorded using the fm band of a radio and a Olympus digital recorder.
To my ears the message says "We have no doubt Chrissy loves her"
There are variations of this method also, and I will mention them in future posts,
Best Regards,
Niall.
