Radio Earpieces

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So, I've been working at my old high school and they all have Motorola 2-way radios as their comms, don't ask, it's just what it is. Due to covid, we'll all been assigned our own earpieces, but I hate the fit on the one assigned to me. Anyone have a preferred brand/model of earpiece they use for themselves?
 
Do you happen to know what kind of radios they are? That will determine which earpieces fit into your radio.

Not the model, but the headsets look like this.

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On set I see a ton of Comply Foam Tips because they can be thrown into a lot of the generic security earpieces, I don't know the specific size but I can tell you I just pulled three random security earpieces of out my backpack and a box of Shure SE IEM tips and every variety of tip made for the Shure SE tips worked on all of the random security earpieces I have.

Pandemic aside, I'm a huge fan of just letting everyone own the security earpieces and never ever ever getting them returned to me, I know budgets vary all over but out of all the gear in all the years I've lent out nothing comes back more gross than security earpieces. A few years of managing 300 radio rentals with earpieces and they just get so disgusting so quick, people throw them in pockets, in backpacks, etc. If you buy them in a large enough quantity the price gets down to like $6-$7 a unit and for me the piece of mind to not deal with a box of biohazard spaghetti is well worth it.

Rant aside, if you have any Fist Mic/Biscuits, the OEM motorola dudes have a 3.5mm output you can run headphones into it and just use whatever headphones you like.

+1 for EarHero, while I haven't used them I've been eyeing them for a few years now and at $150 they are spendy but after a year of working in TV where they only use security earpieces I'm now a convert and the EarHero potentially looks unobtrusive enough to slide in during the mix of a show when the A2 is trying to get my attention. They are definitely one of the things I'll be buying myself the next tour gig that comes my way.
 
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Can you post the model of radio and/or a photo of the unit? My main background besides tooling with this stuff for fun is public safety communications, so I can definitely help you on the right path.

Personally I like a speaker mic with an earpiece port myself, but what radio you have will dictate what can be used with it.
 

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