Wireless mics and wireless instruments transmitters for praise team

[sheepdog]

1st: My apologies if this thread is in the wrong subforum. It was tough to decide which one to use. Feel free to relocate it if necessary.

Our praise team has problems getting set up properly due to the tangle of cables and wires where we all play/sing. What we are looking for is a wireless system with 8 mics (1 for the preacher, 1 for the extra mic, and 6 for the singers) plus 4 wireless instrument transmitters (bass, 2 guitars, keyboards). I really have not looked into this before, but it seems like it would decrease some of the confusion. There are so many cables and wires that I think that is part of the reason we have a noise problem. Seems like cables looped around and around on top of each other tend to attract more noise. Any suggestions that would fit this need? It is not that large of an auditorium (less than 50 feet between us and the mixing board), so we don't need something to transmit across a stadium.

thanks,
Gary

[melb_bass_guy]

dude, it sounds good, i would recomend sennheisers for the mics, and you do realise how much this is going to cost ur church, caus with wireless if u by cheap, u sound cheap!

also, you dont need wireless for ur guitars, bass n keys. plug the instruments with a di out thorugh the sound desk via a snake!

oh n for the preacher i recomend a sennheiser hs2 or a MKE 2-P

[rarutz]

Originally Posted by melb_bass_guy

dude, it sounds good, i would recomend sennheisers for the mics, and you do realise how much this is going to cost ur church, caus with wireless if u by cheap, u sound cheap!

also, you dont need wireless for ur guitars, bass n keys. plug the instruments with a di out thorugh the sound desk via a snake!

oh n for the preacher i recomend a sennheiser hs2 or a MKE 2-P

+1
sm58 is the way to go for the singers but it's gonna cost the church big time.

[T-Bird]

Hi, sheepdog

I'm not in the music bussiness anymore, but when I was ~10 years ago, the multichannel wireless systems came and went quite quickly. And for a reason.
The dynamics were shot as the bandwidth decreased and the static interference, not to mention the 100 or so mobile phones in the range of the transmitters and recievers, caused more than one embarassing moment for the sound engineers.

Place Your mobile phone near to a radio antenna, and You'll know what I mean.

You should check and contact at least AKG, Shure and Sennheiser (in any order You prefer ), to get some idea of the cost involved in this type of installation.

I'd guess around 10k for a 8 channel system. Could be wrong though.

I've dealt only with the analog systems, the digital might be the solution.

Regards
Sam