OT: Amateur Theatre.

Just advertise it with a brief description.

Bill

Even the pantomime uses a laptop and sound files in my village. TW

They probably use a mobile phone with a soundboard/fart app nowadays.

Care home.

door effects unit. At the Orange tree in Richmond they have one but it also has a small door and latch as well which somehow sounds like a much bigger door. Brian

No as I say recently seen effects trolleys in mainstream theatres, not everyone has a laptop or tablet to connect to the audio, often as well direction is important, and small units can be operated remotely. Brian

Can remember seeing those at the BBC too. But a separate device to the one which did doorbells.

Must admit that using a mobile phone with a wireless link to the hall sound system would be well down my list on how to play in sound FX.

But then I do own a 360 Systems ShortCut which was fairly state of the art when I still did such things.

Certainly the radio studios had them. But then along came sound effects records. I built a telephone ringer based on a BBC in-house design. But mine stopped when the handset was lifted. Phone had to be mofified to do that.

That reminds me. I have a home built ringer too. Which works with any phone which plugs into a standard BT socket. Loosely based on a Maplin design which generates the ring tone electronically. So is happy to run from batteries.

You're right with older phones which were hard wired. Think they had to have the strapping modified to work with the BBC one.