no but you can get parts and do it. i have a co-worker who can. mine is the G3 series, nothing to worry about...
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no but you can get parts and do it. i have a co-worker who can. mine is the G3 series, nothing to worry about...
I've been toying with going wireless as well, but I think the bodypack transmitter would be annoying. The Samson Airline series looks like less hassle, but I don't know about it's reliability or sound quality.
What do folks generally do with the bodypack transmitter? Do most of you actually wear it, or do you attach it to your strap?
-Alan
What do folks generally do with the bodypack transmitter? Do most of you actually wear it, or do you attach it to your strap?
-Alan
i dont recommend samson ever....rarely has a good quality product IMHO.
i put my bodypack on the botrtom of my pocket opening, or on my belt on my hip.
I use an X2 and Levi's leather straps. The transmitter's clips can slide through two slots in the strap and be secured with a length of twist-tie from the back. It's secure, easy to undo in seconds, and invisible on stage.
I've had very good results with the G50. Here's a clip from a recent jazz gig where I was using the G50 between a Rob Allen Deep 4 fretless and a Puma 900 amp / Fearless 110 cab.
Save yourself the money you will waste on a Samson product and buy a name brand. Samson is not professional gear. But if you only want to use your wireless at rehearsal and there is no chance you might ever gig, go for it. The Line 6 is the current bottom of the barrel but yet very usable with great sound results.
This is a common practice no matter who's systems/products you buy. Sennheiser nor any other major maker is going to be ale to maintain a lifetime supply of parts. All wireless system are made in China for the most part. A maker will purchase "X"amount of spare parts. When those parts are running out, they run out. If they continue to support a $400 wireless and make one that is rock solid for life...eventually they run out of marketplace. Sort of a planned obsolescence, like a car. If your Chevy lasted 50 years with just a regular battery replacement, you'd never need another one. Hence they should be selling Wireless system for $5k a pop since they will only ever sell you one wireless ever. Makers depend upon you liking their product and even replacing their product with another of their product when the original device craps out. Now that said, I have 11 perfectly working Audio Technica systems of all age. I have dependable good sounding VHF band 1100 & 1200's, and also several UHF 3000, 4000 and 7000 series systems. Never had an issue with any of them.
Everyone stops supporting product repairs five to seven years after a product is discontinued. And I do mean everybody's. the business. Peavey might be a rare exception as long as they still have part inventory, but I wouldn't buy Peavey wireless. Shure doesn't support their old stuff either. You don't expect your PC to last 50 years do you? No reason to expect your wireless should last much more than five years after it is no longer made. An old Sennheiser wireless is not a Marshall Plexi....or a '57 Strat, is it? Suck it up and buy a new one, they do sound better today than the old ones.
My transmitter goes in a pouch which is laced into my bass strap, I don't even know it's there. Back when I used multiple basses at gigs I would keep the transmitter in my back pocket and even there I never really noticed it. It's certainly less of a hassle than stepping/tripping/kicking on cables all night!
Lighten up Francis.
While Line 6 has gained in popularity among the amateur, semi-pro and regional acts the vast majority of the pros still use the name brands, Shure is still the choice of the touring professional because they are rock solid. One of the reasons Shure is still the man, is because of the massive amount of money they put behind their products. Shure has been spending a fortune on Washington lobbies to fight the FCC's sell off of the UHF bands. They have by far the most responsive people in the industry for tech support and wireless knowledge base. Their research and software tools are absolute the top in the business.
But for a system that I would gig with? I use Audio Technica. Why? Because they gave me a ******** of them. Yes, they gave them to me as an endorser several years back. I paid nothing for them. But if I had to buy, I would buy Shure. They are what I've been selling and installing with minimal issues over the past 20 years. And if they gave me a ULXSD system, I would use it over my extremely nice A-T 7000 series units. How does it affect my tone? Nobody listens to my tone I play in a rock band, we are loud they are drunk. My wireless work and I get paid. They sound good enough for me to of worry about the sound.
Not saying the Line 6 don't work. I would just be more comfortable using a product that has some care about the wireless industry as a whole.
That's all fine and good. No doubt there are systems out there that cost 3 times as much as the $400 G50. I still think it's a massive stretch to call it bottom of the barrel. And for those of us that actually do care about tone, the G50 has made a lot of happy customers.
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I have been using Sennheiser for years and have never had any issues. Shure also make some great wireless systems.
I bought a shure lx system about 10 years ago that has been rock solid. I have only had to replace the cable from the body pack to the bass once.
i went from my shure SLX to my sennheiser EW100 series. sennheiser beats it hands down for sound and build quality.
SLX was still good, however for a 5 string bass, it couldn't handle my low B as the frequency response is around 45hz -15kHz or something. wheras the sennheiser ew100 was a full 20hz-20kHz.
SLX was still good, however for a 5 string bass, it couldn't handle my low B as the frequency response is around 45hz -15kHz or something. wheras the sennheiser ew100 was a full 20hz-20kHz.
I use a Line6 G-30 and I love it . The only issue I have had is the plastic buttons that hold the clip on broke off after a couple weeks of use. So I bought a neotech pouch for it(10.00) and no more Issue.
