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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: Leevi on January 05, 2011, 02:08:49 pm

Title: Wireless guitar systems and tube amps
Post by: Leevi on January 05, 2011, 02:08:49 pm

Has anyone tried to use a wireless guitar system together with tube amps?
How does it work? Does it cause any disturbances?
/Leevi

Title: Re: Wireless guitar systems and tube amps
Post by: G._Hoffman on January 05, 2011, 04:26:29 pm

Depends on what you mean.  It will (or should) work fine, but it will change the sound because - as I understand it - the output impedance of the wireless unit will not be the same as a guitars, and because the wireless unit's output will be (probably) a resistive load instead of an inductive load.  There are companies that sell 1:1 transformers to solve that problem, but I have no actual experience with them and so can't recommend one.


Gabriel

Title: Re: Wireless guitar systems and tube amps
Post by: kagliostro on January 05, 2011, 04:51:30 pm

Some time ago, here in the forum, there was a discussion about the mod of an old tube radio receiver, into a guitar amp, at that time PRR (if I don't remember bad) give the council to restore the radio equipment and to build a little tube transmitter so the guitar will be connected to the amp wireless

don't know if the author of the tread do that

now is easy to buy a transmitter, but I agree with G._Hoffman about results, they can be nice, but sure different than those reached with a cable

Kagliostro

Title: Re: Wireless guitar systems and tube amps
Post by: Jack1962 on January 07, 2011, 04:51:39 pm

I have used a wireless with mine and my brother has with his as well , what I noticed (and didn't care for) was it introduced a bit of distortion into the signal.

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Title: Re: Wireless guitar systems and tube amps
Post by: GuitarPilot65 on March 11, 2011, 05:09:01 pm

According to this web site, my man Lerxst uses Audio-Technica wireless gear:
http://www.uberproaudio.com/who-plays-what/155-rushs-alex-lifeson-guitar-gear-rig-and-equipment

Title: Re: Wireless guitar systems and tube amps
Post by: samato on March 11, 2011, 11:04:12 pm

I've tried a couple and they worked "better" than a cable you could say.  It's hard to describe but I thought the signal was too clean or pristine or something and I didn't like it.  I also didn't like the possibility of getting "hits" (random RF interference noises) while on stage, though those were pretty infrequent.

Anyway, I didn't like the sound so I went back to cables.  In fact I want to buy a coiled cable to "mess up" my sound even more but the only ones I've come across so far are pretty short and pretty expensive.  I still might use my wireless unit for soundcheck when I'm playing and running sound.