When recording phone conversation, the other person can't hear me

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi! I am trying to record phone conversation for a podcast. I am using the USB-C connection from my Android phone. I have a cable with the USB-C connection and the other end is a 3.5mm mini-jack of which I’ve put a 6.35 mm jack to plug into my FocusRite Solo interface.

When I place the call, I can hear the other person. I can also record that person’s voice and record my voice. The problem is that the other person cannot hear me.

I am using Audacity 3.7.0 and Windows 11.

This is a new Android phone I am using that doesn’t have a 3.5 output jack like I used successfully with my previous phone.

Thank you for your help in advance.

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Can you do the conversation on Zoom? Zoom used to be able to provide you with a recording of the performance. In some cases two individual files. If you have a quiet, echo-free room, that may be all you need.

I have several Olympus TP-7 microphones. You put it in your ear and plug it into any MIC-IN. It will pick up your voice from your bone conduction and the other side via regular sound. Any Phone you put up to your ear will work.

I can’t find all the sound tests, but here’s one.

Oop. There’s one.

Koz

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Koz: Thank you for your response. Zoom will be my back up recording solution. I was hoping to simplify the process by throwing the phone audio into my interface, but it’s not working because the other person cannot hear me. It’s weird because I can hear them and I can record both their voice and mine, but a conversation can’t be had because the other person can’t hear me.

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Recording both sides of a conversation is not fun. The machinery doing the conversation is designed specifically to keep the two voices balanced to avoid echoes and feedback. Anything you do to the system to throw the balance off will give you oddities like you have now.

Koz

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Again given the quiet, echo-free room, set up the computer for a hand’s-free performance. No handsets or headphones or anything else.

Then set your phone up to record the room. I use iPhone Lossless Voice Memo to record our book club,

I can’t find that clip, but this is my phone recording our Weekend Breakfast Club. The cool thing about this is I look just like everybody else with a phone on the table.

Koz

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One odd note. This is a forum, not a Help Desk. If you do get something to work, Post back how you did it.

Koz

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How are you talking to the other side if you don’t want to record it? Does that work OK?

Koz

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There are phone apps for recording phone calls. (I don’t have one but you can search the Net.)

Then you should be able to transfer it to your computer for editing, etc. Recording “live” during a podcast may be trickier…

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There are some very good tutorials here: https://www.pride48.com/training/