Paranormal - EVP Howto

Page Title: Paranormal - EVP Howto
Created: 2025-03-22 18:26:20
Current: 2025-05-01 22:57:37 UTC

Paranormal Investigators depict electronic voice phenomena (EVP) as sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices which one does not hear at the time of recording.

These are my thoughts on how to record EVP’s properly with at least some sort of controllability.

I believe that you should have 1 recorder to be used as an environmental ambient recorder placed some distance away (40+ metres) from where you are doing the investigation. You use this recorder to record the ambient noise in the environment so you can use this later to help identify any erroneous sounds like cars, animals or people who may be in the local vicinity who may also be talking or shouting. This way if you get a voice on one of your investigation recorders which you may think could be an EVP you can double check on the environmental ambient recorder to see if this voice appears or not.

After placing you environmental ambient recorder some distance away (40+ metres), you then use an additional 2 recorders.

I personally like to use 2 of these cheap 8GB recorders for investigations, one as a White Noise Player and the other for actual investigation recording of the EVP’s.

With the “White Noise Player” I have it loaded white noise, pink noise, brown noise, chrome noise and Spirit Box Sweeps in various durations from 1 minute to 1 hour.

Both of these recorders have the ability to listen live to what is being recorded by plugging in to the speaker socket which is great for live monitoring.

So on recorder Fred(F) I have my noise files, so I connect the headphone socket on Fred to the microphone socket on Dorothy(D).

I then have a choice what to do…
A) If I just want to record a session with out any monitoring then I do not connect any thing to Dorothy(D), this way there is only 1 recording session
B) If I want to listen live to what is being recorded, then I plug headphones into Dorothy(D) headphone socket.
C) If I want to to do multiple recordings and have 2 recordings of a session then I connect another recording device, either Humphrey (my Olympus DM-770 8GB recorder) or my Notebook running Audacity (So I can record, listen and display live waveform analysis.

Doing things this way is a bit more work but does help to rule any erroneous sounds, record the same session but from different recorders and also live monitoring.

One of the things most people don’t know is how an EVP is actually left on a recording device. Most people just guess and say it’s the microphone that records the EVP, yet EVP’s have supposedly been left on devices with a disabled or null microphone. Some EVP’s have been supposedly left with the recordered under water, or in a vacuum chamber. Some people guess it’s done through the electronic circuitry, some guess it’s only possible to get EVP’s when white noise is playing nearby.

The thing is NOBODY actually knows, not me, not you, not anybody. This is why I am testing each different way but to be honest I have not recorded a single EVP on any equipment so from my perspective EVP’s are not real but I am a optimistic skeptic and I shall keep researching and trying things.