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1. Louder Does Not Equal Better - This myth is prevalent with many evp investigators. Louder volume increases any audible distortion plus increases auditory fatigue. Always listen to evp's at a lower volume. Lower volumes increase clarity and reduces auditory fatigue enabling you to listen to the audio files longer. This is where a good set of headphones that completely cover the ear come in. With these types of headphones you won't need to turn up the volume to block out any outside noise.

2. Use Your iPod as a Voice Recorder - If you have an iPod you can use it as a voice recorder that can record up to 4 1/2 hours of audio. You can either purchase a Belkin Universal Microphone Adapter which allows you to connect a microphone or purchase a Griffin Technology iFM adapter which allows you to record voice with the high quality omni-directional built in microphone.

3. EQ (Equalization) - Using EQ first and foremost is one the easiest ways to remove hiss and noise. If you have alot of hiss on your audio due to wind then reducing the high end will help bring down some of that noise. On the other hand if you have alot of low end rumble then bring up the high end a little bit until the treble starts to even out the rumble.

4. Clean Before You Amplify - One of the biggest mistakes that alot of people make is they import their audio, select it and then increase the gain. If you need to make your audio louder use your volume knob first then clean the audio using either EQ or a restoration tool. Once you are satisfied with the sound quality then and only then is it ok to add gain. Adding gain before you clean will only increase the noise which will in turn cause you to add more volume and gain thereby making more noise. Remember, always clean first.

5. Using White Noise - Some investigators like to use a radio or TV set to static or a fan running in the background during evp investigations because they believe that the "spirits" utilize the energy from this white noise to project themselves onto the recording medium. There is no solid proof of this and it is my belief that all this does is increase the difficulty of cleaning in the long run. If you have more noise on the recorder then you have more noise to remove. And in the process you could be removing valuable evps. My suggestion is to not use any white noise in your investigation. Keep it clean from the beginning.

6. Reversing Audio - I am not a fan of this at all. I find it very hard to believe that a spirit would go through the trouble to speak with us just to turn around and speak backwards. To me those that reverse audio are doing so because they are so convinced that they will find something that they won't stop until they do. And if that means they have to manipulate the audio in order to do so then that is what they will do.

7. Listen Logically - Keep an open mind when listening to audio. Not everything you hear will be an evp. Most likely there is a perfectly logical explanation for what you are hearing. Of course there will be times when it is unexplainable but don't jump to conclusions and don't over react. Think about the environment that the audio was recorded in. Was it noisy? Was it windy? Was there an open window? Were there children nearby? Did the owner of the house have pets? Are there vents in the room? It is best to be safe and proven wrong then to jump to conclusions and be proven wrong. Your credibility will only diminish from there. So use common sense and listen logically. It will be your best friend.

8. Purchase a Good Digital Recorder - There are some investigators that encourage purchasing the cheapest recorder possible because "the internal noise made by the poor quality sound circuit is used to form the voices". This is absolute nonsense! Like I said before, garbage in equals garbage out. Start with the cleanest signal possible and you will not only get a better clean but clearer voices if they are on the audio to begin with. By starting with a noisy recorder you will only increase the difficulty of cleaning the audio. That is why so many of the "professional" investigators have sub-par evp's.

9. Take Off Any Jewelry - Believe it or not if you have jewelry on such as loose bracelets or a bunch of necklaces these can cause havoc when you are listening back to your audio. Maybe one of your team members are wearing jewelry and you don't know it and when you listen back to the audio you think it's the ghost of Ickabod Crane coming to get you. Trust me, in the long run when you are sitting at your computer and you remembered to take off those five bracelets and you don't have to sit there for hours trying to remove that jangling sound....you'll thank me.

10. Keep Talking to a Minimum - When you are recording try to keep unnecessary talking down to a minimum. Try to use hand signals if at all possible between team members. The whole point is to keep the recording process as pure as possible to rule out any sounds that shouldn't be on there.