In Article , "Mark"
wrote:
So....
Is True Diversity worth the extra money, for me?

Couldn't hurt

Should I get the Samson or the AKG?

Mebbe AT or Sennheiser

Or should I simply stick to good old XLR cable?

Any thoughts???


How long is the cable?


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Ty Ford

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In rec.audio.pro Mark wrote:

Should I spend the extra a get the True Diversity, even though most of the
time I am going to only be a few meters away from the receive, and never
more than 30ish if I go into the crowd.

Yes the extra is worth it. Even if you are close there is always
the problem of radio standing waves in the room that cause signal
dropout. The higher frequencies are worse for this. And the farther
you get away the worse the problem can get as signal levels
drop. Even true diversity can have problems.

Should I stick to the policy of don't use radio unless you really have to.

Yes. But then what do you mean by "have to". If you want to go
into the crowd, then I guess you "have to".

Benj
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In article , writes
In rec.audio.pro Mark wrote:

Should I spend the extra a get the True Diversity, even though most of the
time I am going to only be a few meters away from the receive, and never
more than 30ish if I go into the crowd.

Yes the extra is worth it. Even if you are close there is always
the problem of radio standing waves in the room that cause signal
dropout. The higher frequencies are worse for this. And the farther
you get away the worse the problem can get as signal levels
drop. Even true diversity can have problems.

Should I stick to the policy of don't use radio unless you really have to.

Yes. But then what do you mean by "have to". If you want to go
into the crowd, then I guess you "have to".

Benj

Well FWIW we used to run a mobile disco back in the 70's using a couple
of Tannoy York enclosures with 15" monitor gold's therein driven by
Quad 50E's and we were using a home brewed radio mic, sorta belt pack
thing then on 175 MHz, and never had any problems with it!!..
--
Tony Sayer

tony sayer wrote:

Well FWIW we used to run a mobile disco back in the 70's using a couple
of Tannoy York enclosures with 15" monitor gold's therein driven by
Quad 50E's and we were using a home brewed radio mic, sorta belt pack
thing then on 175 MHz, and never had any problems with it!!..

Back in the seventies, the general RF level was a lot lower. Remember
back when you could actually turn on an AM radio and get decent reception?

At least in the US, the proliferation of cheap consumer electronics has
really resulted in incredible amounts of hash on the VHF bands and below.

Hell, I remember when those 40 MHz VHF-LO radio mikes worked great! I
could not imagine using one of those in the RF horror of any metropolitan
area today.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

Back in the seventies, the general RF level was a lot lower. Remember
back when you could actually turn on an AM radio and get decent reception?

At least in the US, the proliferation of cheap consumer electronics has
really resulted in incredible amounts of hash on the VHF bands and below.

Hell, I remember when those 40 MHz VHF-LO radio mikes worked great! I
could not imagine using one of those in the RF horror of any metropolitan
area today.

Nice story: at the university were used some cheap radio microphones,
that used the same frequency band of some (illegal here) cordless
phones near the 50 MHz band. Sometimes in the midst of a caclulus
theorem explanation instead of the teacher's voice we started hearing
some phone call, making the classroom start laughing.

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

Back in the seventies, the general RF level was a lot lower. Remember
back when you could actually turn on an AM radio and get decent reception?

At least in the US, the proliferation of cheap consumer electronics has
really resulted in incredible amounts of hash on the VHF bands and below.

Hell, I remember when those 40 MHz VHF-LO radio mikes worked great! I
could not imagine using one of those in the RF horror of any metropolitan
area today.

Nice story: at the university were used some cheap radio microphones,
that used the same frequency band of some (illegal here) cordless
phones near the 50 MHz band. Sometimes in the midst of a caclulus
theorem explanation instead of the teacher's voice we started hearing
some phone call, making the classroom start laughing.

On 16 Oct 2003 10:01:36 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Hell, I remember when those 40 MHz VHF-LO radio mikes worked great! I
could not imagine using one of those in the RF horror of any metropolitan
area today.


I keep thinking I'll have to upgrade my old Shure radio mic, then it
keeps working near to perfectly 99% of the time. I'm gigging in the
London UK area, which is about as metropolitan as it gets :-)

The only place it has real problems is on Thames pleasureboat gigs.
Some combination of dirty generated AC power, ship radio frequencies
and/or constantly changing location often get the better of it.

On 16 Oct 2003 10:01:36 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Hell, I remember when those 40 MHz VHF-LO radio mikes worked great! I
could not imagine using one of those in the RF horror of any metropolitan
area today.


I keep thinking I'll have to upgrade my old Shure radio mic, then it
keeps working near to perfectly 99% of the time. I'm gigging in the
London UK area, which is about as metropolitan as it gets :-)

The only place it has real problems is on Thames pleasureboat gigs.
Some combination of dirty generated AC power, ship radio frequencies
and/or constantly changing location often get the better of it.

tony sayer wrote:

Well FWIW we used to run a mobile disco back in the 70's using a couple
of Tannoy York enclosures with 15" monitor gold's therein driven by
Quad 50E's and we were using a home brewed radio mic, sorta belt pack
thing then on 175 MHz, and never had any problems with it!!..

Back in the seventies, the general RF level was a lot lower. Remember
back when you could actually turn on an AM radio and get decent reception?

At least in the US, the proliferation of cheap consumer electronics has
really resulted in incredible amounts of hash on the VHF bands and below.

Hell, I remember when those 40 MHz VHF-LO radio mikes worked great! I
could not imagine using one of those in the RF horror of any metropolitan
area today.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article , writes
In rec.audio.pro Mark wrote:

Should I spend the extra a get the True Diversity, even though most of the
time I am going to only be a few meters away from the receive, and never
more than 30ish if I go into the crowd.

Yes the extra is worth it. Even if you are close there is always
the problem of radio standing waves in the room that cause signal
dropout. The higher frequencies are worse for this. And the farther
you get away the worse the problem can get as signal levels
drop. Even true diversity can have problems.

Should I stick to the policy of don't use radio unless you really have to.

Yes. But then what do you mean by "have to". If you want to go
into the crowd, then I guess you "have to".

Benj

Well FWIW we used to run a mobile disco back in the 70's using a couple
of Tannoy York enclosures with 15" monitor gold's therein driven by
Quad 50E's and we were using a home brewed radio mic, sorta belt pack
thing then on 175 MHz, and never had any problems with it!!..
--
Tony Sayer