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Author Topic: Hello monitors? This is front-of-house calling.  (Read 3655 times)

brian maddox

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Re: Hello monitors? This is front-of-house calling.
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2018, 08:51:18 PM »

All of mine are either red or white so they are easier to find in the dark. All except one.  A corporate client decided to start using one on stage during head table type staging and I thought he’d really like the red phones but nope, had to be black.

Mine used to be white about 25 years ago.  It's now kinda a dingy beige/yellow/ick color, but it's still one of my prized possessions along with my Baby Blue speaker station.
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Re: Hello monitors? This is front-of-house calling.
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2018, 12:37:24 AM »

That's crazy. In my experience, when the show is at full tilt, radios with shoulder mics are unusable, where com (via these handsets) is a sure bet. I never have any issues hearing over com during 105dBA+ shows.


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For me it is a clarity issue. I can't understand the words with the background noise. It is in the brain not the ears.

I can't hold a conversation in a noisy party or sporting event, either.

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Re: Hello monitors? This is front-of-house calling.
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2018, 08:00:21 AM »

Maybe I could put a pay phone at the side of the stage for the band to discuss the monitor mixes. It would cost them a dime for each adjustment  :)

Haha.  With some bands that would be a good idea.
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Re: Hello monitors? This is front-of-house calling.
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2018, 08:09:22 AM »

Haha.  With some bands that would be a good idea.
Give Neil a red one, connected to the side of his "monster rack of noise".....
He'll never put id down....  ::)
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Re: Hello monitors? This is front-of-house calling.
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2018, 11:14:46 PM »

I needed a cheap, point-to-point intercom and went to an army surplus sale, bought two sets of TP6N field telephone.

Early 1950s, my dad worked for a phone company in ND. At the time they transitioned from crank to rotary dial. He saved a few phones from the dump -- two oak wall phones, a Bakelite wall phone, and a Bakelite desk phone (which has a crank where you'd expect to see a dial).

Sometime in the 1990s I resurrected them, connecting them as an interview between the house, shop, and sauna.

My brother has the place now. I should repossess those phones, I could use an intercom between my house, shop, and barn.
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