[ReiRei]

So for the longest time our sound operators kept blaming everyone's cellphones ringing as the cause of buzzing noises in out headsets and sometimes our speakers. Because some of our sound operators in the high school were just lazy and I know for a fact that sometimes it was just bad cables, I left my phone on. Nothing happened when my phone rang, buzzed, or did anything slightly angry at me. I even put it in various places around our sound and lights booth and nothing happened.

A few months before I graduated, we had a professional sound guy come in to help us set up some new equipment and he said that due to some sort of frequency issue or something, the only cellphone carrier that interfered with our equipment was at&t. It made sense that my phone did interfere with our stuff since I go through us cellular.

However, I do recognize that cellphones are a major problem. More that people are being distracted by them during show runs and rehearsals and such than making angry noises in equipment. I can't honestly tell people anymore that their specific cellphones will interfere with our equipment, but I do warn them against using cellphones during any show time because it is rude and holds everyone up.

I kicked someone one of my crew members out of a wet tech because he wouldn't stop texting during it and he was supposed to be up on the catwalks focusing... pissed me off...