Paranormal - EVP Howto

Page Title: Paranormal - EVP Howto
Last Modified: 2026-06-13 18:22:12
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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 a minium of 2 recorders (one for recording environment and the other as your main investigation recorder).
You should place the environment recorder about 20m away from you and leave it running whilst you do your EVP sessions. This is to record the ambient noise in the local environment so you can use this later to help identify any erroneous sounds (like cars, animals or people talking/shouting). This way if you get something which you think might be an EVP on your main investigation recorder(s) you can then double check on the environmental ambient recorder to see if this noise voice appears or not. This way you can discount any erroneous sounds.

I personally have 4 voice recorders now. I have 2 high quality Olympus DM-770 8GB recorders and 2 cheap Chinese 8GB recorders.

I use the following recorders for....
Olympus DM-770 8GB recorder as my environment recorder
Olympus DM-770 8GB recorder as one of my main EVP recorders.
1 cheap Chinese 8GB recorder as a secondary EVP recorder.
1 cheap Chinese 8GB recorder as a white noise player

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.

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.

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 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 recorder 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.