Danny Danzi

The Kiosk Project

As someone who spends a fair bit of time on stage performing with wireless systems (wandering into the audience), you get more than about 20' off the stage... and the latency starts to get pretty uncomfortable.

Jim Roseberry

Thats a very interesting fact Jim. I am currently putting together a new band as lead guitarist and have been looking at some wireless rigs for my guitars. I had never considered this. Are you saying that the latency is less if you stay stagebound? (I am talking small club / bar stages here) Is that to do with the processing of any interference in the weakened single as I cant see that the distances involved could possibly be effected by the speed of transmission...


I know this should be for the equipment or coffee house but I couldn't help but respond to the comment...


Garry

Hi Gary,
 
I just wanted to share this with you as I'm a total stickler for wireless units. I've tried every single one I could get my hands on. The best is the Sony which is of course about 5k non-negotiable. But to be honest, I didn't want to be wireless THAT bad. LOL!
 
I've tried Beyerdynamic, Nady, Samson, AKG, Shure, Sennheiser, and all the new/old models of the aforementioned companies. None of them were to my liking...so I've stuck with a chord all these years. Until now. I happened to read some really good reviews about the Line 6 Relay G90. Well, I decided to order one to try it. I have an arrangement with the company I buy from that I can just send something back if it's not for me no matter what it is. They usually let me use it for a month or so and then I either return it or send them the cash.
 
But anyway, I get this thing...set it up for the most part (you'll understand what I mean by "for the most part" in a second lol) and start walking around my house. Up stair, around corners, half way up my attic steps, out side in my front yard, out side in my back yard...this thing just wouldn't quit or drop out. I come to find out, I didn't even have the antenna's hooked up and it still kicked my butt!!!!!!!!!
 
Some of the cool features about it:
 
I cannot tell a difference between it and my cable. I recorded with both...0 difference. They have a cable selector/simulator that works fantastic built into this thing.
 
Rechargeable batteries work like a charm. You literally get 7 hours out of them to the numbers using Eveready's. The battery meter on both the transmitter and receiver are spot on and at a glance, you know how much juice you got.
 
You can change the color of the LED readout to various cool colors to match your other readout lights.
 
You can put the antenna's on the front or the back. This way (in the back) you never have to take them off like you would in the front as most rack lids in the front won't let you keep your antenna's on. It works just as great on the back as it does the front.
 
I've gotten 0 drop-outs and no interference at all.
 
No loss of gain, no compressed tone, nothing synthetic.
 
Durable belt pack made of metal...detachable cable.
 
Custom channel saving with name label ability. I have a few transmitters...each one with the name of the guitar on the transmitter.
 
Way more channels than you'll ever need.
 
Drawbacks:
 
Only two. The first is, with the rechargeable batteries, (though they work and perform flalessly) there's a bit of an error with the battery timer when you first fire the unit up with a battery that's been used a bit. This is one of the drawbacks of using rechargeables.....the meter needs a few minutes to read the battery correctly. For example, if you put a fully charged one in, it will read the right amount of time. If you use it all night at a gig and then fire it up the next night or whatever, it will read a number that may be a half hour to an hour off at first. After 3-5 minutes of being on, the correct battery life will show. If you do this with a REAL battery, it will give you the proper time without the 3-5 minute thing. They mention this flaw in the manual...so I knew about it. It's not messed me up or anything.
 
The next is, I got a little hum out of it that I could not get out no matter what I tried. Even with the unit powered off it had this little tiny 60 cycle hum in it. I know this was not my rack or anything in my rack. I took it out of the rack and set it up the same way...it just wasn't "Racked in". It still gave me this little hum. I use all new cables and stuff, so I figured it may be the unit. I grabbed one of those 3 prong to 2 prong adaptors and dropped the ground on it and it was completely gone. I don't like to use those things, but it solved the problem and I have a totally clean sound with 0 noise, hiss, it's perfect. I don't know if maybe the hum is a flaw with my unit or this is something they all have, but the little ground lift worked...so I never looked into it any further.
 
That's the only issues I had though. It's definitely the best wireless I've ever used for guitar. I play some pretty nice size rooms and outdoor gigs...it's been flawless for every one. Definitely check one of these out when you get a chance. I promise you won't be sorry. Hope this helps.
 
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RelayG90/ If you scroll through the reviews, I put one up there because I was so blown away by this. It's pretty much along the lines of what you've read here though. :)
 
Sheesh...I'm way off topic...sorry about that guys...just trying to help a few brothers out. :)
 
-Danny

Danny Danzi


LOL you guys are too much! Hahahaha....I needed to show you just how fast I type with two fingers....I'm not too bad, but a little slow this morning...but, on a good day, I can kick some butt! :)

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-Danny