Starting to look at control room gear. I'm stuck on the name of the box used for phones. Standard rack mount, nothing exotic (this was 1988) but callers taped to reel and sounded so clean. Damned if I can't rembemer the name.
Found it. Gentner telephone interface.
You may find the vintage phone boxes are not happy working with modern phones. Nowadays they call them telephone hybrids. There are some nifty new ones that aren't too awfully expensive that sound amazing as they utilize modern processing chips. And it's nice to have a borad with a phone channel with "mix minus" e.g. the phone comes in the board but does not go back out the feed line to the phone so you can have on air conversations, and the person on the phone can hear you down the phone line, but it won't feed back. They get the "mix minus the phone" so they hear the board feed only back down the line with no feedback. Very groovy if you take callers on the air. You can also do this with many of the phone hybrids.
Tim in Bovey
It is also called a Furnortnur.
I use MajickJack + a Gentner SPH-3A and it works AWESOMEly.
I did have to hunt down an old scholl POTS phone.. but thrift stores, flea markets, and amazon.com solve that 🙂
While i am and always will be an analog man, todays technology is moving at a fast pace and keeping up with it can become expensive if not frustrating.
One piece of software makes it easy to put callers on the air and it is made by who else? Skype.
I have used skype many times in the past and it works but the only draw back is not everyone likes it or even understands how it works.
i agree; however everyone has a phone (landline or mobile). not everyone is skype capable. 🙂