Phone Ring s.e. IDEAS?!?!

[KeepOnTruckin]

I have used the Tele-Q and the speaker under the phone. I prefer the tele-q but you ahve to buy that. Of course that may be cheaper if you don't have an extra speaker and cable, but you have to have the sound op stop the sound when the reciver is lifted. Do not play the sound out of the regular FOH speakers, it sounds awful.

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by MercyTech

...I additionally wired the rig so that picking up the receiver interrupted the circuit. ...

Very good addition, as there's nothing more comical than a phone that continues to ring, even if only for a fraction of a second, after the receiver is lifted.

[Cashwalker]

Very good addition, as there's nothing more comical than a phone that continues to ring, even if only for a fraction of a second, after the receiver is lifted.

Well, the trick to that is to train the actor to only pick up the phone between ring cycles.

I play the phone sound through my usual speakers, and no one's complained yet.

I once rigged a clock radio so I could play the music cue directly through it, but it was distracting to the actresses in the scene, so I went back to playing it through the main mix.

The trick I use is to pan the sound effect to the side of the stage where the sound is supposed to come from, and for the most part, it works well enough.

Edit - Another reason we don't use a ring generator, is because some of the phones we have were broken in the first place.

[zuixro]

I had a really great circuit bookmarked but I can't find it.... You pushed the button and it started the ringing cycle on the phone and didn't stop until the receiver was picked up. It used a single chip, some caps and resistors, and a transformer. I didn't get to build it though, the director didn't want to pay a whole $20 for something that could be used over and over again when we could get a phone sound effect for free... Oh well.

The cool part was that it was actually ringing the phone, not just playing a sound. I'll have to see if I can find it. It was completely DIY, but easy enough to solder up on a piece of perf board from Radioshack.