Two bodypacks with one receiver.

[beaglesandbass]

I currently use two basses in a night, and I play with a sennheiser wireless system.

I wear the transmitter on me and when I switch basses I: mute the amp, unplug it the bass , take it off, put the other bass on, and plug that one in, and unmute the amp. I'd like to cut out the unplugging/plugging in step. Would I be able to just buy another one of the same transmitters and just have them both at the same frequency?

Assuming I could, would I need to turn the inactive one all the way off, or would muting it be enough?

 

[Rune Bivrin]

I currently use two basses in a night, and I play with a sennheiser wireless system.

I wear the transmitter on me and when I switch basses I: mute the amp, unplug it the bass , take it off, put the other bass on, and plug that one in, and unmute the amp. I'd like to cut out the unplugging/plugging in step. Would I be able to just buy another one of the same transmitters and just have them both at the same frequency?

Assuming I could, would I need to turn the inactive one all the way off, or would muting it be enough?

I do that, and even if I don't have a Sennheiser, it works without a problem. But you do need to turn the inactive transmitter off.

 

[Geri O]

I currently use two basses in a night, and I play with a sennheiser wireless system.

I wear the transmitter on me and when I switch basses I: mute the amp, unplug it the bass , take it off, put the other bass on, and plug that one in, and unmute the amp. I'd like to cut out the unplugging/plugging in step. Would I be able to just buy another one of the same transmitters and just have them both at the same frequency?

Assuming I could, would I need to turn the inactive one all the way off, or would muting it be enough?

You will indeed need to power the un-used transmitter completely off. Muting the signal does not turn off the RF carrier and the two transmitters will interfere with each other.

But this should be pretty easy to do.

I wanted to go the two-transmitter route, but I didn't for a couple of reasons. First, the Lectrosonics pack I use takes two hands to power up and down. This is an industrial-broadcast transmitter (Lectro is used my major networks for its robust design and RF quality) and it's designed this way so that on-air personalities can't inadvertently power the transmitter off.

Not to mention that the SMQV pack I use is $1500 street price. And that's the older model, although still quite popular. I shudder to think what the new model (smaller and more power available) costs.

So I have a tuner near my basses that I can use to mute the signal when I change basses (which I haven't experienced the need a lot just yet. Just on gigs where I switch between fretted and fretless)

All that said, Sennheiser is good stuff, no doubt.

 

[mellowinman]

I did this all the time in my last band. It worked really well. I always shut the one I wasn't playing completely off; if I put it on standby, I got some interesting, (and not in a good way,) sounds.

 

[walterw]

i swap between two guitars all the time in one of my bands, and i can unplug faster than i can fiddle with turning off a beltpack, so it's one transmitter for me that stays on my belt.

i stomp on the pedal tuner for silence, unplug, keep the plug in my hand, throw off one guitar and throw on the other, plug in (which automatically runs the cable through the strap like you're supposed to), hit the tuner and go.

ten seconds and let's go!