I have attempted to connect my old rotary phone up to my old GE tape recorder.
I tried taking a 3.5 MM plug and hooking up the red and green to the phones microphone. I was able to understand what I was saying, but there was a lot of static.
I am curious to if I could possibly damage the microphone or the recorder in any way by experimenting. I want to keep them, as they are the only ones I have as of now.
The old phones are almost indestructible so I am mainly worried about the recorder.
Do the old tape recorders send current out through the microphone and wait for interruptions like the rotary phone does?
I know for a fact that the phone's microphone uses a bit more than the recorder would.
Here is the recorder I am using:
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/SExPbI6WBjE/mqdefault.jpg
For the sake of time the phones back then are not that different from the phones of today. The only difference is that you can actually mess with the old phones.
I tried taking a 3.5 MM plug and hooking up the red and green to the phones microphone. I was able to understand what I was saying, but there was a lot of static.
I am curious to if I could possibly damage the microphone or the recorder in any way by experimenting. I want to keep them, as they are the only ones I have as of now.
The old phones are almost indestructible so I am mainly worried about the recorder.
Do the old tape recorders send current out through the microphone and wait for interruptions like the rotary phone does?
I know for a fact that the phone's microphone uses a bit more than the recorder would.
Here is the recorder I am using:
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/SExPbI6WBjE/mqdefault.jpg
For the sake of time the phones back then are not that different from the phones of today. The only difference is that you can actually mess with the old phones.