Wireless Lekato WS-50 short review

[bucephalus]

I honestly am beginning to think from these responses that my perceived "upgrade" to the ws90 (higher number better ) was a mistake

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I honestly am beginning to think from these responses that my perceived "upgrade" to the ws90 (higher number better ) was a mistake

I made that fumble with the WS70 UHF set. Yours is the 5.8 GHz if I recall? I get some low-level hiss with my WS-50 on distorted sounds, not so much clean. Can't really notice it live

 

[Snags]

FWIW I used(d)* a set of WS-50 at rehearsals and live for about a year without any problems at all. Rehearsal room is probably 60-70' foot long, and live venues are small UK pubs in the main. I could walk from stage to sound-desk and keep playing no problem at rehearsal, and would regularly go out front at gigs to check balance and levels during soundchecks, walking all around whatever room we were in. Never had a dropout, never had an issue with latency. This is running through a conventional pedal board into an amp/cab, no modelling.

I've had more issues with the comparatively posh and expensive Smoothhound wireless I was using before.

*They're still in use now, as I bring them to gigs for the singer, and he's had no issues either. Unfortunately my hands are still too buggered to play guitar, so I'm relegated to keys, where wireless really isn't an issue.

 

[FrankyFire]

No idea what the latency of the Sennheiser XSW-D set I’m using now would be, I can’t tell on stage plugged into a modeler. So far it’s been trouble free as long our bass player turns on his G30 system first. I tried the G10 on its first version and it was great in the rehearsal space, but three consecutive shows it was interference city on stage. I’d like to try one of the dongle-style UHF ones, but those historically fuck up the guitar sound even more.

+1 for the Sennheiser XSW-D. Works great on guitar for me too. I'm using it for about 6 years now. I think there's a no-pedal version. Don't get the XLR version for microphones, I don't know why, but the battery life is way shorter with that one.
The distance I can go with it is also pretty decent. Usually I cant take my guitar with me to the toilet (2 walls in between) and still play while eeehm... checking if there are still enough paper towels.
Which by the way also speaks for the XVive devices, as that's what I use for IEM.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

comparatively posh and expensive Smoothhound wireless