Wireless - to pedal board or where?

darius · January 2023

How do you setup your guitar wireless if you run a pedalboard?

My gtr cable goes into my pedalboard. Most receivers i've seen look like a brick that needs to be sat on an amp somewhere. If i ran wireless, it seems a bit pointless to go to a recvr back near the amp then run another long cable back to the pedalboard. It gets you mobile but its another loooong cable in the chain.

Or do you put the receiver on the floor?! Bit dodgy surely. There's no room on the board.

RocknRollDave · January 2023

Mine’s on my board.

richman6100 · January 2023

Mine too.

Cirrus · January 2023

Mine is under the board, and it plugs into a box I put together which has two jack inputs - if I plug a lead into the unused 2nd input, it mutes the wireless receiver on the 1st input. Otherwise, the wireless signal passes through to the first pedal.

Sporky · January 2023

There seems to be a gap in the market for a two-way wireless doodad. Guitar to a box on the pedal board with an out (to your pedals) and an in (from your pedals, then another box at the amp.

DECT is inherently two-way but not quite like this. But you can run multiple DECT things together without clashes.

EricTheWeary · January 2023

Mine was on my board. But yes the most fragile (and probably the most expensive) thing on there with little antenna sticking out. Did seem to be an accident waiting to happen.

ElectricXII · January 2023

I've got a Line 6 G30 and the receiver is mounted under my pedalboard next to my pedal PSU.

fretmeister · January 2023

I've got a G70 and it's on my board. It's also my tuner.

Sporky · January 2023

I wonder what the latency would be like if you did wireless 4CM.

fretmeister · January 2023

Sporky said:

I wonder what the latency would be like if you did wireless 4CM.

Signal latency or the latency between posting about it on TGP and the responses from those claiming their ears can tell the difference between 1.5ms and 3ms while moving around on a stage?

Sporky · January 2023

Both matter!

I did a quick investigate, and I think having four wireless links using the latest DECT stuff should only be around 10-15ms. About the same as standing 4m away from your amp.

Jonathangus · January 2023

I have a patch box under the board with a top-mounted input jack, into which I plug the receiver.

Lestratcaster · January 2023

When I did gig I used a Line 6 Relay G50 and the receiver fit on my pedalboard before my tuner. Worked nicely and didn't take up much space. Now I've moved on from physical pedals and would be playing a Kemper Profiler live with the footcontroller so I presume I'd have the receiver before the input of the Kemper.

shufflebeat · January 2023

I just use a little Wingo w58 jobby, 5.8GHz transmission where the Rx and Tx are the same size, ie, very small.

Over the years I've had Nady, Sennheiser and Line 6 and this does the same job.

Gassage · January 2023

Always remember, you can't plug these into a fuzz- well you can try, but the fuzz will lose all its mojo.

darius · January 2023

So on the floor is the concensus it seems.

Too delicate for me I reckon.

PolarityMan · January 2023

I whack mine in the input of my tuner. Its one of these so pretty small and doesn't need to be a permanent part of the boarc

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/xvive-xu2-wireless-instrument-system-black/909376?gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiAoL6eBhA3EiwAXDom5mC1RKM0jb5loqbJH65A8IYdneAHikBtU3gRRwltrx1H0aDTkwxSDhoCRtUQAvD_BwE

PolarityMan · January 2023

Sporky said:

There seems to be a gap in the market for a two-way wireless doodad. Guitar to a box on the pedal board with an out (to your pedals) and an in (from your pedals, then another box at the amp.

DECT is inherently two-way but not quite like this. But you can run multiple DECT things together without clashes.

Im actually amazed by this too but not for the use case you mean, I am surprised that no one has combined guitar or voice transmitter with IEM stereo receive in a single beltpack. Last time I looked I think shure had something but it was mega expensive.

mike257 · January 2023

PolarityMan said:

Sporky said:

There seems to be a gap in the market for a two-way wireless doodad. Guitar to a box on the pedal board with an out (to your pedals) and an in (from your pedals, then another box at the amp.

DECT is inherently two-way but not quite like this. But you can run multiple DECT things together without clashes.

Im actually amazed by this too but not for the use case you mean, I am surprised that no one has combined guitar or voice transmitter with IEM stereo receive in a single beltpack. Last time I looked I think shure had something but it was mega expensive.

Causes all sorts of bother having a transmit antenna and a receive antenna in such close proximity. On bigger stages (where all the radio kit is in the wings over at monitor world) we'll put a fair distance between IEM transmit and mic/guitar receive antennas, and we'll at the very least make sure if someone's wearing a transmitter and an IEM pack, they're on opposite sides of their body.

PolarityMan · February 2023

mike257 said:

PolarityMan said:

Sporky said:

There seems to be a gap in the market for a two-way wireless doodad. Guitar to a box on the pedal board with an out (to your pedals) and an in (from your pedals, then another box at the amp.

DECT is inherently two-way but not quite like this. But you can run multiple DECT things together without clashes.

Im actually amazed by this too but not for the use case you mean, I am surprised that no one has combined guitar or voice transmitter with IEM stereo receive in a single beltpack. Last time I looked I think shure had something but it was mega expensive.

Causes all sorts of bother having a transmit antenna and a receive antenna in such close proximity. On bigger stages (where all the radio kit is in the wings over at monitor world) we'll put a fair distance between IEM transmit and mic/guitar receive antennas, and we'll at the very least make sure if someone's wearing a transmitter and an IEM pack, they're on opposite sides of their body.

Ahh interesting, so perhaps I cold reduce interference by changing where i wear my pack, right now the guitar tranmitter is a plug type one (xvive) and I wear my IEM back on my belt just behing my hip on the same side but maybe I might see a difference wearing it on my other side or even on the guitar strap at the top.

Rocker · February 2023

The board is wired to my amps. The receiver is the input to the board and the transmitter is plugged into my guitar. A simple setup that works fine for me.

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