RE: [Harp-L] Wireless redux

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The AKG Diversity can handle both the hi-z and lo-z (but not both at
once from what I remember). You can switch between lo-z and hi-z mics
though by using the snap-on xlr transmitter for the lo-z mics and the
guitar bug for the hi-z/bullet mics. The receiver will adjust
automatically. The diversity unit has two antennas and it picks the one
with the best signal from the transmitter, in case you are moving around
a lot.

Someone else said they set up the guitar bug so that it was straight
out, taped the hinge in the open position or something. But this unit is
discontinued by AKG I believe, at least the snap-on xlr part is. I got
one off ebay. I stayed away from the belt-pac, I want to be *truly*
wireless. I used someone else's and didn't like the belt pack and wire
to my mic, I'd get tangled in that as easy as the wires I was trying to
get away from :^)

I think sennheiser makes a good rig too from what folks say, but
expensive. I love having *no* wires. But the snap on used with some
'conventional' mics like the EV RE-10, sm57, etc can end up being a
looong wand to handle. What I *love* now is using it with the fireball,
it's a very small compact set up because the fireball is really just the
'ball' and xlr at the bottom, no extended 'stick' to deal with, and the
snapon just plugs right into that.

Ps snap-on question - mine doesn't seem to go into the middle 'mute'
position as far as the slider on the snapon. I guess that's broke?
Anyone else have that problem and fix it? Guess I'll have to try to take
it apart, but I hate to do that.

Welcome back to the land of the flying longnecks. Heck with the wireless
you can go out into the crowd and drink a few :^)

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Fertig
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:11 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Wireless redux 


Hi Honeys I'm home!  I've been away from Harp-L for half-a-year,
adjusting to my return to the USA.  , and I am glad to be back among you
. . .

Permit me to ask you hi-tech-hot-shot-harp-heads about wireless rigs.  

I've looked through recent Harp-L postings re: wireless, and my
impression is the AKG rig is the best/most-reliable/less prone to
screeching etc. 

My mic has an R5D controlled mag cartridge, I guess you'd call it a
bullet-style hi-Z mic.  So the AKG Snap-On won't work without an XLR
converter, which I suspect would alter the tone unaceptably. 

Thus I looked at the AKG Guitar Bud which, I gather, acts like the
xmitter one'd o-wise put on one's belt.  

My Quandaries: 

Can the Bud's springed hinge be adjusted so the unit doesn't fold up and
put the antenna next to the mic/into my hands or mouth?  

Is the G. Bud a single-frequency device?

Or should I get a belt-mounted xmitter?

Should I worry about having only a single-frequency unit (cheaper, I
presume), or should I go for the AKG "Flexx" model with multi-frequency
transmission in order to avoid cosmic convergence of radio
signals/drop-outs/UHF TV re-runs?

Bonus question: are some frequency ranges more likely to be crowded than
others? 

Seeking to be untethered so I can roam around to find good monitor, and
even hide behind the amps to avoid flying longnecks, 

-Dave Fertig


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