Title: Bad EVPs and the people whom record them...
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Blog Entry: It's funny, when I was 19, I used a Panasonic cassette recorder to see if I could pick up anything as I slept. Now that is over branded as "EVP", it isn't an EVP unless you get something. Right? Now isn't it an EVP when: 1) You didn't hear it during the session, but it is on the tape. 2) You heard it during the session, but it didn't record on the tape? I think People are confusing what is truly a "Voice phenomenon". LOW Q: People are also getting recording encoded into Shoddy Low-Q MP3's that distort and "flange" the sound that may have been picked up. ( hence the Flanger/phaser FX, toilet gurgling and stomach noises more ) I NEVER heard those as I recall when people used tape. Tape hiss, and mechanism noise if you used the built in MIC. Grant it I am no EVP expert, nor do I claim to be. I have done some audio engineering work for video games TV and radio work, and own 9 programmable music synthesizers keyboards. (ADSR shaping) I also have had my share of Studio experience, and live sound stage was my forte' since before my first rock band even. But this still does not make me an "EVP expert", a sound engineer at best. Let's face it, It isn't hard to hold out ones arm and try to provoke a spirit. I wonder why people who got results on an Ouija Board were not referred to as " OUIJA BOARD EXPERTS "? I call them haunted myself. As this might make them 'special" it doesn't make them an "Expert". Some are purely lucky SOBs let's face it. ( Some, however, are considered not so lucky , they don't like the voices coming in at will. ) The real expert comes in using the right equipment and cleaning the signal up, recognizing real paranormal captures. If you listen to the noise for an extended period of time you might start to pick out voices no one else hears. This is a sort of sensitivity training. A bit like that in the way speculum has it's mirror gazing... Occultist train themselves to read your future looking into a cup of tea. One might hear what we don't. Which brings me to another point, as in 'when does EVP recording stop being "science", and begin to begin to be more like an Occult practice '? Anywoo- unless EVERYONE hears it, it isn't in my opinion a valid EVP wortyh sharing. Anymore than the latest dust particle is a ghostly ORB.
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