Features:

• Economical, sensitive microphone for recording phone conversations
• Works great with cell phones and landlines
• Includes all necessary adapters
• Records both sides of conversation
• Records directly to voice recorder

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Ever need to record an important telephone conversation? The TP-7, telephone pickup, makes phone recording two sides of the conversation. Just plug the TP-7 jack into the "MIC" jack of your recorder, and put the earphone side into your ear. When speaking on the telephone, the TP-7 will capture both sides of the conversation for recording by your voice recorder.

Amazon.com Product Description:
Do you ever need to record an important telephone conversation? The TP-7 telephone pickup, makes phone recording easy and even picks up both sides of the conversation. Just plug the TP-7 jack into the "MIC" jack of your recorder, and put the earphone side into your ear. When in use, the TP-7 will capture both sides of the conversation. For added convenience, the TP-7 works great with land lines and cell phones.

What's in the Box
Microphone, adapter to convert from monaural 3.5 mm mini-plug to stereo 3.5 mm mini-plug, and monaural 3.5 mm mini-plug to monaural 2.5 mm mini-plug adapter.

Rating : - Another Idea - Use Your Cheap Earbuds
Okay, full disclsure, I didn't plunk down the Andrew Jackson and buy this thing. After reading the reviews, I realized I didn't have to.

You see, I remembered (probably from a Mr. Wizard episode or something) that small speakers including earphones, can work in reverse as microphones. To listen to my recorder, I already had some cheap stereo earbuds plugged into a $3 radio shack adaptor that converts a mono 1/8" jack output into stereo. I unplugged them from the earphone jack and plugged them into the microphone jack instead. Then I attatched the business end of one earbud to the earpiece of my telephone with a rubber band, let the other one hang near the talk-hole, and presto, I can record telephone conversations with reasonable quality.

Now I'm willing to accept that perhaps this $20 contraption sounds better and it is no doubt more elegant. But my solution was free, and the sound quality seems to be in line with what the reviews here state.

A few cautions - I'm no expert on audio equipment, but when I tried this method with higher-quality earphones (even my ipod ones), it worked worse. For whatever reason, the cheaper the better. Also, you MUST use earphones with those puffy little wind-canceling mittens, otherwise you will record the earphone scratching against the receiver and your own wind.

Next up, I'm going to see if I can get even better sound by using the hands-free thing that came with my mobile phone (another adaptor from radio smack), and finally, see if I can use the jack on the mobile phone to connect the phone directly to my recorder. Man, I am such a dork.