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Joniv · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:50 am Post subject: Phone Patch

I think I may be over-simplifying this and was hoping you all could set me straight.

I've read several past posts about the use of a phone patch. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why can't you just use a head set with a regular or cell phone and for play back put it by the speaker? One of you had also suggested using a regular speaker phone. Won't these suggestions do the same thing as a phone patch unit?

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dhouston67 · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:12 am Post subject:

Joni,

All those solutions and more have been suggested, and even used in some cases, by members here. The idea behind using a dedicated phone patch is that you have more control over the level and quality of the audio being sent back through your phone line. If the lower-tech (and lower-cost) solutions work for both you and the client, then by all means go with it.
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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1636

Headset vs Phone patch? Try playing something back over a headset and sounding professional while you do it. (Did that come out really sarcastic? It wasn't meant to be that harsh. Smile

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verbcrunch · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

I like the client to hear the mic, not the phone's mouthpiece. Cheapest hardware solution I know of comes from JK Audio products - i have this little box, it works fine if you have a mixing board:

http://www.jkaudio.com/that-1.htm

They also make a unit that'll let you do a phone patch - plugging directly into your cell phone.

Or you could always rip apart and modify an old answering machine !
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