'Dressing' a house to help it sell.....

For the now shortly to be 'pulled' Family Affairs, I built them a bell box as was common on 'live' days. Ie, a box with front door bells in it that would be used in the studio to save on dubbing time. And would have liked several different sounding ones. But couldn't find them. Just a bell, a ding dong and a Maplin chime.

Built them a telephone ringer as well... Now at least they do sound different.

Or for those of use with Canford catalogues, we buy our doorbells from the same place they do :-)

If it was dubbed on, wouldn't it have a different reverberation characteristic from the studio sound?

They shouldn't do, in fact proper Converters Ringing are readily available, I got mine from J Bull but they come up on Ebay.

It always used to annoy me when TV dubbed a Statesman ring when a Viscount phone was in vision (etc)

Owain

And I thought *I* was a geek. :o)

Only if you've been trainspotting, Huge :-)

Most people have to commit very large portion of their income to buy a house (and can no longer be so sure inflation will wipe out most of the mortgage debt). So doing up a place while living comfortably elsewhere is not an option for most, having a spare room to move the junk into at best. So not suprising that making a house clean and tidy and bland helps sell. But doing anything more, but for your own benefit, is just a sunk cost.

It sounds like our bathroom. Is it time to upgrade yet?

You add reverb if necessary at the dub. Most decent sound FX are recorded tight and clean so you can 'muddy' them to match.

But doing it in the studio is much better since it also gives the artists their cue.

Sorry, I meant phones often sound different. So ringing them for real in the studio makes more sense than even doorbells.

Yup. Same with cars. But keeping sound FX up to date for where they're not supplied 'live' or as a wild track is extremely costly.

There's no law against keeping green bathroom suites.

:-(

There should have been a law against their introduction...

Mary

What ARE you talking about???

Mary

Why live elsewherewhile doing up a house?

We (two parents, three children under 3yo) lived in this house while making the plumbing stop leaking so that we could have a fire (in December) and sorting out the neglected electrics (OK, before part P) and gas supply.

Those people have too many possessions. And aspirations.

I don't understand that last sentence.

Mary

I hear whispers that coloured suites are starting to come back into fashion.

Owain

Heigh ho! The Fishers will be unfashionable AGAIN!

Mary

Most people are lazy. They want to move straight into a house and be able to live with it for long enough to decide how to redecorate.

My old gran had something similar. She also kept a Billy goat and a baby sheep. So she had a ram a lamb a dingdong. :-)

Telephones don't all have the same ring.

That's good. Mine is whisper green. ;-)

And just how long have you been waiting for a suitable thread for that one? ;-)

I think light is dawning, a Statesman and a Viscount are models of handsets, right? If not I still don't understand.

Mary

A billy goat isn't a ram.

Mary