wireless monitoring?

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is there a wireless unit that will transmit audio from my mixer to the home stereo in the living room to check mixes?
 
You could use a FM mod to transmit FM but that would degrade the signal. The best way would just be to run a wire to it.
 
now I think I want to just pipe it out to the car. let the mix go and run out and check it before I print it to tape. would save a lot of time. heck, check it on two cars and the home stereo.
 
If you're thinking about a system like this to see how your mix will sond on the radio, keep in mind that non-classical FM radio stations typically apply a lot of compression and/or limiting to the signal coming out of their board before sending it to the transmitter. If you don't do that, you'll be comparing apples to oranges. If you do do (or is it doo doo?) that, then you won't be hearing your true mix.

G.
 
no, thats not it at all. see. I have a mix. and I get it just right. and I print it to tape. and then I do the whole cd, (say 20-40 minutes of music is typical). Then, after I've gotten all of the mixes correct (with mutes and fades, etc), I transfer the master tape to the PC. all of this is of course maintaining perfect levels. after its to PC, I chop it up into tracks, and burn. Take it to my car, and notice it sounds like shit.

one of these would really cut down on the time it takes to go through this process.

or is it just that I'm usually listening in the car the next day with fresh ears?
 
You can use a set of wireless in ears. You can transmit from your control room to the in ear receiver. Instead of earbuds you can plug in a 1/8" stereo adaptor. I used 6 sets of ears with antenna boosters last year for a live show in which I had to cover a mile and a half of width and 2 large indoor hangars. Worked great and I could transmit 2500 feet with paddles at each end:)
 
FALKEN said:
one of these would really cut down on the time it takes to go through this process
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My point was that an FM transmitter is not only going to add to the signal chain (adding it's own coloration in the process), but it's going to give you a totally alien listening situation.

Have you noticed how different the radio in your car sounds from your CD player? This is due to two main things; the different curcuitry and specifications between the receiver section and the CD player section within your car stereo, and the different nature of commercial FM broadcasts themselves as compared to CD playback.

Using one of these transmitters to broadcast your CD to your car will be a third, entirely different animal of different spots and colors altogether from either of the two you're used to. It will not be the same as listening to the CD in the car, nor will it be the same as listening to a commercial FM broadcast. There will be no reference to compare or translate it to.

OK, you could broadcast some known quantities like your favorite commercial CDs and see how they translate to your transmitter situation. But then what we're talking about is learning how to translate the transmitter; i.e. you're adding an extra level of translation to the process.

It may be "easier" to transmit than to burn (though I find even that somewhat debatable), but is it really easier - or more importantly, sonically better - to have to double-translate your mixes in your head vs. just learning the monitors to begin with?

G.
 
How about using some sort of Ipod type device that allows you to upload things to it? Much faster than burning CD's and such. Many newer car stereo's have auxilliary inouts now so you could just leave the cables in place. That way you won't miss the beginning of the song either:)
 
wow. I was negative repped down to zero on that last one. what cockless shits. what a waste of time.
 
So you are now going to publically make yourself an ass now because 1 idiot negative repped you? Let it go man, rep doesn't mean anything in this place. Also, lets try and not blame everyone for the faults of one.
 
Falken, for the record, I did not negative rep you now or ever before. You've apparently been blindsided by a troll.

And, to get back on thread, I understand that you're working with tape. I don't believe that has a direct relation to the potential issues I raised that such an FM transmission will not sound the same in your car as either a commercial radio station or a CD.

Whether or not you work with tape - analog or digital - or with CD, or any other tracking and mixing medium, it seems to me that the fact still remains that what you'll be hearing in the car will be heard through a different colored lens than all other things heard in your car. leaving you little baseline of comparison to determine how much of what you're hearing is because of your mix or because of the medium through which you're hearing it.

It's a very intriguing idea. I'm not saying it can't work. I'm just trying to illustrate the potential potholes that you might have to steer around if one were to go down that road.

G.
 
I use my car for comparing to other CD's through a different syatem, not for comparing to the radio, so in that sense, the radio comments would be moot. You may be stuck with the wireless in ear route then. The good news is that you will then have a set of wireless in ear monitors for playing live:D
 
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