NEW
ENDORSER!
X2
Digital Wireless
Wow!
After purchasing a Professional Shure Wireless
system (ULXP) and using it around the country,
I found that my tone was always compromised. This
year I was introduced to the new X2 digital wireless
at the NAMM show and bought one soon thereafter.
These digital systems don't suffer from the Compression
and Expansion of your signal, rather sampling the
guitars output at 24-bit resolution and sending
an encrypted data stream to the receiver where
it's decrypted and turns back into audio. Turns
out they are the same people that made the Digital
Xwire system, which was swallowed up by Sennnheiser
(becoming the D-1000). I had 2 of those but came
across support problems when they failed.
Flash
forward to now- I've tested this new system out
on almost every gig I've had and the sound has
been unbelievable! The only problem is that the
receiver really wants to have it's own dedicated
power as opposed to sharing the power with other
pedals on a pedalboard. Oh yeah... the receiver
fits on a pedalboard!
Keeping
a line of sight is a little difficult for me- say
if I go into the crowd yet the receiver is on the
floor of a raised stage. Drop outs do occur. I
figure I'll have to somehow mount the reciever
up on my rig instead. Still, I've come to love
this unit. I tried to use my Shure the other day
and couldn't stand even 2 notes from it.
I'm
looking forward to a more robust system from X2 in
the future so I can convince my bass tech that these
things are alright. Until then I'll keep
using this cute lil one they got.
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UPDATE!!!
I've now been using the rack system on EVERY GIG on
this tour with ZERO problems! This is by far the best
wireless system I've ever used.
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