New CB member [user]Falcao[/user] just sent me this PM. I'm not an expert at troubleshooting wireless systems. So I share his question with you. Welcome to the Booth Falcao. Be sure to stop in the new member forum and introduce yourself. Don't be afraid to post questions in the future. We don't bite... well most of us don't bite.
Taking the easy route to start the discussion... how often do you change the batteries and are you talking about the light on the transmitter or the receiver?
The official expected battery life on those is about 8 hours. General practice is to change batteries at the start of every event. If the event is a long one I would change about every 3 or 4 hours to be sure they won't die on you.
I am VERY exasperated with my new PGX systems. I do live street performances with a team of performers using prerecorded music from an iPod. We perform for crowds of about 1500 people in open air venues. I have six(6) PGX systems, two that are the SM 58 hand held and four that are the PGX1 with the headset application. I only have two or three (at the most) microphones open at a time, the others are either off or muted. All of them are the H6 frequencies. I am trying to use them here in Bogota Colombia.
Everything is new. New cords, New mixer, New speakers, New Sub, New microphones..... Anyways what is happening is that the Mics will just cut out and dropout, some time to the point where they only will pick up a very few amount of words, some times to the point where they wont work at all. I do not sing, I only talk. I have noticed that the 'Ready Light' flashes off when this happens. I am guessing some kind of Frequency interference.
My basic set up is simple: I set my Mackie CFX-12 mixer on a table and plug all the receivers in 6 separate channels using an XLR cable from there two XLR cables run to my QSC K-12 speakers (these are powered speakers) and one to my QSC KW-181 sub. All of which plugs in to two power strips.
I have turned off the mixer and the speakers and sub and the ready light on the receivers still flashes off. So it must be some kind of inner interference. I have tried changing the group to a few different ones to no avail. I have also tried ever way of re-syncing them and they stay the same. The more microphones that are in use the worse it gets, also the louder the music the worse it gets.
I am really at my end with this system. They have already destroyed four important presentations that I have done. I have tried to use both 1/4 unbalanced cords and the XLR balanced. The truth is that I am out of my league and doing everything I can to just get things working. I am performer not a sound guy, the equipment and sound 'duty' kinda got dropped on me and I am learning as I go.
Taking the easy route to start the discussion... how often do you change the batteries and are you talking about the light on the transmitter or the receiver?
The official expected battery life on those is about 8 hours. General practice is to change batteries at the start of every event. If the event is a long one I would change about every 3 or 4 hours to be sure they won't die on you.