My take: go for the Lectro's and get B3's. But I'm biased.
Above available frequencies, there are many thing I like about the Lectro's. The fact that they all fit into a 6 in 1 chassis is nice, and they don't need distro's and a number of antennas to work right. This means could fit our entire wireless setup in a nice little package.
The G3's are nice as well, but eat up major rack-space with 24 individual receivers and 6 distro's (and that's just a 24 channel setup). Also, I seem to be having a hard time figuring out the best way to setup that many G3's.
It appears that (according to the Sennheiser document "Working with the Evolution Wireless G2"), that you cannot "daisy chain" the distro's to each other. Therefore, each distro will need a separate antenna, which brings the total antenna count to 6 (instead of 2 with Lectrosonic's). This is of course for the G2 series, but I figured most principles apply to the G3 as well.
Unless or course, I am misunderstanding the document. In the document, they show a sample setup of a 16 channel system. I was just kind of "building" on that system in a similar fashion as described to bring it to 24 channels.
Mike, perhaps you can make some sense out of this setup. Attached is a link to it, and its on page 20 I believe. This was the same system diagram I used in placing the original order for 18 of the G3 100's.
http://www.sennheiserusa.com/workingwithewg2/working_with_ewG2.pdf
Yeah, their setup works just fine, but if it were me doing it I would place a 7th distro unit at the top, and use it to split a pair of antennas three ways. I dislike the idea of having all of those antennas in the air...
I don't believe there is any technical reason why this can't be done.
This pricing was actually for 4 x VRMWBL, 24 x VRS receivers and 24 x LMa transmitters through Performance Audio. With the VRT, it came close to $33k without the microphones included.
This was of course going off of retail price, and I would hope with this large of an order, that they would have a discount of some sort in place for us.
Thanks!
Yep. Check your PM in a few minutes here for some info.
Mike
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