Who’s wireless these days?

[Alex Kenivel]

Been using my Lekato WS-50 for my last 3 punk gigs and handful of practices with no issue. Relay G10 before that on big city private party event gigs, yacht club events too rich for my blood.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

I've been using the XVive A58 for about 18 months now. I played a lot of gigs with it, in different states/areas, no issues whatsoever.

 

[László]

I bought my only wireless unit in 1989. It was analog. You could turn it up and it could boost an amp, which was kind of cool. It actually had a sound of its own, which, depending on the guitar and amp, could be a good thing or a bad thing.

About a decade later I graduated from sniffing bicycle seats to corks, so I became a purist and went back to using a cable.

True story: Two-Rock sent me a solid-core cable to try out, and it was so stiff that it couldn't actually be uncoiled. It was more like a giant Slinky than a guitar cable.

They didn't offer it for very long. It was great sounding - like, no high frequency signal loss - but it was impossible to use in the studio or live.

Of course, for a cork sniffer such as myself, it was perfect for that very reason.

And no one wanted to steal it. It would have been hard to steal something that only coiled up as small as a bicycle wheel.

One of my session guys liked it, so I gave it to him.

"I'll bet you never went back to using a wireless again because of your affinity for sniffing corks, right?"

"I never went back to using a wireless again because I couldn't find my wireless unit when I realized this business of having a cable to trip over was pretty stupid. But I kept forgetting to replace it for the past 25 years. Now that I look at the price of the top units - which of course I must have because corks must be sniffed - I just keep using cables in the studio because I'd rather buy dumb stuff like microphones and instruments."

"You realize you're out of your mind."

"So what. I have dementia as an excuse."

 

[Frankencat]

I need to up my wireless game. What setup for a professional gigging situation?

So the XVive a58 is the answer then? I do like the dongle setup over the body pack. I already have a body pack for my IEMs.

 

[Frankencat]

Been using my Lekato WS-50 for my last 3 punk gigs and handful of practices with no issue. Relay G10 before that on big city private party event gigs, yacht club events too rich for my blood.

I have been using mine and it has worked pretty well. I do get some minor dropouts from time to time but it's probably more due to our many WiFi devices on stage. I worry about the durability of these units and I am in the market for something a little "better"?

 

[8ftsq]

I have been using mine and it has worked pretty well. I do get some minor dropouts from time to time but it's probably more due to our many WiFi devices on stage. I worry about the durability of these units and I am in the market for something a little "better"?

I also have the Lekato WS50s but got these about 2 months ago and happy so far. I wanted a UHF set to deal with interference and have options depending on the venue

 

[0XI0]

I walked around naked with my katana dongle hanging out of my horizon yesterday playing along to august ponthier

 

[DrewJD82]

There’s someone selling a Samson rack wireless with 4 transmitters for fairly cheap locally, I considered it for a moment until realizing I’d only use each transmitter until the battery died then leave them laying around my apartment, getting lost in the couch and shit.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

So the XVive a58 is the answer then? I do like the dongle setup over the body pack. I already have a body pack for my IEMs.

well, I don't know if it is THE answer, but I put mine through a lot of live shows in all kinds of different venues, from holes in the walls to theaters and it performed flawlessly. I tried a Lekato before and I had issues on venues with heavy WiFi activity near the stage.

 

[Frankencat]

So I ordered the Shure GLXD16+. We have a ton of wireless devices on stage, IEMs, mics, guitars, and I want something with more channels. Also I see a lot of these in touring rigs. My band plays theaters, clubs, shells, shacks, all kinds of places and we travel a bit so I need something trouble free and robust, good battery life, good support, etc. I am booked solid through the summer so we'll see how it goes. My little Lekato dongle will serve backup duty. It has been pretty decent but I am afraid it's going to fall apart one of these times lol.

 

[Baba]

So I ordered the Shure GLXD16+. We have a ton of wireless devices on stage, IEMs, mics, guitars, and I want something with more channels. Also I see a lot of these in touring rigs. My band plays theaters, clubs, shells, shacks, all kinds of places and we travel a bit so I need something trouble free and robust, good battery life, good support, etc. I am booked solid through the summer so we'll see how it goes. My little Lekato dongle will serve backup duty. It has been pretty decent but I am afraid it's going to fall apart one of these times lol.

Good choices. I have both and have used both in many places in a good few different states, and have never had a problem with either.

 

[Henry]

From the cheap ones, I like the Joyo. Simple one button operation to turn on/off and same button on the transmitter changing channels, and USB-C for charging.