<div dir="ltr">How close is the audience? This really seems like the kind of thing that you put a tiny speaker above/under/next to the telephone and process the audio to sound like it's coming through a handset speaker. Much easier than the alternative. I think that even a close up audience would be fooled by this.<div><br></div><div>Ray</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Johnson, Philip via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We’re doing a show with a phone that needs to ring on stage. I have an old Tele-Q box that works so I can make the ringer work. Now the director would like to have audio from
one of the other characters coming through the handset speaker. I have a pretty good idea of how to make this work but I have a couple of questions of the hive mind to see if I have all bases covered. If there is a device for doing this that would be the
best solution.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">4 wire phone cord. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Red and Green to the phone to make the bell ring etc.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m planning on using the black and yellow wires to run audio to the speaker and reconfiguring the phone so the handset speaker isolated to those wires only. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Does this sound like a good plan?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tele-Q will only be used to make it ring, when handset is pick up it stops the flow to the ringer.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Isolating the handset to the other lines should keep the tele-Q and audio system separated</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Do I have a danger of the 90vac from the tele-Q and the audio signal running along the 4 conductor phone line ?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Audio will be a wireless mic on the actor (switchboard operator)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wireless connected to audio console and system.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Amp output of appropriate size and settings running a line to the phone handset.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Running both signals through 4 conductor phone wire</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve run audio to speaker phones before but that was always through a separate line. Should I run a separate line for audio so the phone ring and audio don’t interfere with each
other.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m also concerned 90v would do bad things to the audio console so I may run a separate system just to feed the handset.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This effect is only a couple of minutes long so it’s a lot of work to make it practical.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks for your advice</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Philip Johnson</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lighting Designer/Technical Director</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Theatre and Dance</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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