Desertdweller
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Wow that says it all right there. Lag and clipping. Yikes.
Wireless Lekato WS-50 short review
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That thing is a piss/beer sponge.
Sascha Franck
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It's not a cable I'd ever use, either. Mine are black. Except when they're yellow (and yes, yellow - for historic reasons, too bad I'm by now on my last meters of the most excellent cable I've ever bought some meters of).
burningyen
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I’ve been using the WS-50 system with my electric violin, because having a cable hanging off my shoulder gets annoying quick. Sounds great to me, and I guess this shows I’m no Steve Vai when it comes to latency. They don’t feel very rugged, but thankfully violins tend to bump into fewer things than guitars.
Sascha Franck
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I think that due to the nature of the bowed attack, violins are somewhat less of a victim of latency.
Baba
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wireless latency isn't noticeable, if you've been using wireless for parts of 5 decades
Agree ... unless you have a lot of other latency in your signal chain (or you buy a really, really bad wireless).
Sascha Franck
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wireless latency isn't noticeable, if you've been using wireless for parts of 5 decades
As said, in combination with other latency-introducing devices, it might result in crossing a certain latency acceptance threshold. And given my own experience and those of some mates I fooled around with all things latency, regardless of their general "acceptance value", the area when things cross the tipping point seems to be amazingly small.
bucephalus
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I don't feel any latency on mine, but the hiss it introduced to the helix lt is annoying
Baba
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I've been using digital since around 2004. I only know what latency is because I read about it.
I mean, yes, on the odd occurence that I walked down the street while playing guitar, I could feel that latency, but not when I'm still on stage, within 50 feet of my gear.
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burningyen
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I don't think I've ever seen a complaint about hiss with the WS-50, and I get zero hiss with my Helix. Have you tried switching frequencies?
bucephalus
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I have the ws90. Not sure if that makes any difference at all. Tried all 4 channels on them
though.
though.
Dave Lewis
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I know a couple of YouTubers that have had that make die on them not long after good reviews.
I bought my son one of these 7 years ago after watching this video and it’s still going strong
I bought my son one of these 7 years ago after watching this video and it’s still going strong
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Now that I've used the WS-50 on my bass, I can hear the crispy top of the dynamic range. My bass with its active preamp is much louder than any of my passive electric guitars.
Frankencat
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How are these holding up? I have had mine (WS50) for a couple of years now and it's still going strong. I mostly use it for rehearsals and church where it give at least 4 hours+, I have actually never run out of charge with it. No problematic latency of sound quality issues. I recently started using it on band gigs and am picking up a second one as a backup.
bucephalus
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I have the ws90 and they work fine, decent battery life etc, but most helix units they seem to add a fair bit of noise. They don't with cheap pa and my acoustic though which is odd.
burningyen
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Mine's still going strong 3.5 years in, and no noise with my Helix Floor.
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I've finally started using my WS-50 for a few gigs. Would recommend. I might pick up a second and third pair for backup/rehousing
