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I just learned a new recording Acronym.  I was working on a Travel Channel Shoot for a series called Most Terrifying Places.  We went to 3 haunted places including Lizzy Borden's house.  All the paranormal experts kept referring to EVPs.  Finally I asked what is an EVP.  His answer was Electronic Voice Phenomenon.  It is when after making a recording and you play it back at a later time you hear voices (spirits) on the recording  that you didn't hear while actually making the recording.  I asked the producer to let me know if I recorded any EVPs during any of my 3 days of recording.  Haven't heard anything yet.  Andy

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It's not a new term, I've been aware of EVP for years, it dates back to whenever it was that people first started trying to pretend ghosts exist.

I worked on the UK show 'Most Haunted' for about 4 years and never encountered genuine EVP, never encountered much genuine to be honest, but that's another story.

EVP is for movies.

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I did a shoot for the History channel about EVP's.  They had some people go through the Lizzy Borden house and see if they get any EVP's ( I wasn't on that particular shoot).  They thought they got something and they took the recording to a specialist.  Some guy that can verify recordings and people's voices and such through a bunch of audio analyzing programs and stuff.  He's the go to guy to verify any Osama Bin Laden recordings the surface.  We were shooting him analyzing this supposed EVP.  He gives it a listen and says there is something there, but he can make it out.  I had a feed from his system into my mixer as I was asked to do so.  I'm listening to the EVP as he plays it over and over again, and I realize what it is.  We get done with the shoot, pack up, and then tell the producer what I heard in the recording.  It was someone down stairs by the front door saying," Welcome to the Lizzy Borden House." 

The producer seemed to get a little mad that I said this especially after I asked if there was anyone that worked there that may have been downstairs and possibly out of force of habit might say,"Welcome to the Lizzy Borden House."  I'm thinking I may have accidentally debunked there little EVP that they were so happy about.  I've never worked for them again either.  I guess maybe I did piss someone off.

J. Hemmerlin

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The producer seemed to get a little mad that I said this especially after I asked if there was anyone that worked there that may have been downstairs and possibly out of force of habit might say,"Welcome to the Lizzy Borden House."  I'm thinking I may have accidentally debunked there little EVP that they were so happy about.  I've never worked for them again either.  I guess maybe I did piss someone off.

J. Hemmerlin

I noticed that many reality TV Producers want to insert their version of the truth instead of the actual truth.

Andy

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Last year I worked on one of the "paranormal" shows on A&E and most of the "EVP's" I heard were the product of radioshack quality mics, a baker's dozen different adapters, and about 300 ft of unbalanced line into the "experts" recording gear. 

On playback they would boost the volume so much that really you're just listening to the noise floor at reference level and even a squeaky shoe from the AP in the corner sounds like a ghost saying hello.

It was entertaining for me at least..

I did suggest that with special equipment and a real recorder they could record into ranges that the human ear can't detect (extended response mics, sound devices high sample rate recording) and could later adjust the playback speed in the hope of getting something interesting in the infra or ultra range...  but of course it was wasted breath when they realized that would cost money.

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Last year I worked on one of the "paranormal" shows on A&E and most of the "EVP's" I heard were the product of radioshack quality mics, a baker's dozen different adapters, and about 300 ft of unbalanced line into the "experts" recording gear. 

On playback they would boost the volume so much that really you're just listening to the noise floor at reference level and even a squeaky shoe from the AP in the corner sounds like a ghost saying hello.

It was entertaining for me at least..

I did suggest that with special equipment and a real recorder they could record into ranges that the human ear can't detect (extended response mics, sound devices high sample rate recording) and could later adjust the playback speed in the hope of getting something interesting in the infra or ultra range...  but of course it was wasted breath when they realized that would cost money.

It is ridiculous how they used the cheapest gear to record those things.  It would  cool to go somewhere like the borden house and try it with some high quality gear.  Set it up hit record and let it roll with a completely empty house, and see if anything arises.

I might believe that something paranormal was going on if that got an EVP.

J. Hemmerlin

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