[NEohioPAL] Making a phone ring on stage

[Richard B. Ingraham]

If you have a spare audio amplifier around you can do it fairly cheaply
using this method.  

 

http://chsounddesign.com/ringmaster.php

 

But as a sound designer I have to say I really hate making phones ring live
on stage.  You have no control over the volume of the prop, how the ringer
sounds and invariably the prop "they" bring in doesn't work or doesn't work
well and reliable.  For this reason and many others, I almost always just
hide a speaker on the set and play a recorded phone ring out of that
speaker.  If I didn't tell anyone, most people wouldn't even know the
difference.

 

But the Tele-Q  is  really the easiest way, if you just have to have the
live prop.  Perhaps you might find someone that has one that would be
willing to rent it out to you for an affordable sum.

 

 

Richard B. Ingraham

RBI Computers and Audio

 <http://www.rbicompaudio.20m.com> www.rbicompaudio.20m.com

 

 

 

From: neohiopal-bounces at lists.neohiopal.org
[mailto:neohiopal-bounces at lists.neohiopal.org] On Behalf Of Chris Satola
Sent: September 17, 2013 6:23 PM
To: post at neohiopal.org
Subject: [NEohioPAL] Making a phone ring on stage

 

Hello,

 

I'm in search of an affordable way to make a phone ring on stage. I've read
up on the Tele-Q and the TRG12K from http://www.theatricalreality.com/, but
they are both rather expensive. Does anyone know how to make one, or does
anyone have one that they would be willing to lend or rent to Garfield
Heights High School for a November production of Steel Magnolias?

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

Chris Satola - Facility Manager

Garfield Heights Center for the Performing Arts

4900 Turney Road

Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125

216-662-2800 x52404

csatola at garfield-heights.k12.oh.us

 

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