Wireless IEMs: Xvive U4 & alternatives

[JPJ]

56 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

Some of the online reviews aren't looking too promising re the Nux: complaints about distortion in particular. I guess sometimes you can pay too little for something!

Distortion can be a result of pushing the gain too high on the IEM send. Using IEM’s on a conventional (ie none silent) combined with poor fitting ear pieces can lead you to turn up the desk out until you start clipping the transmitter. 

[Al Krow]

Thanks. I was actually getting a bit of distortion on my Xvive U4s for the first time on the vocals. Interestingly we had pushed the gain on the fem vox up quite a bit - guess need to bring her down and simply cut the rest, and then raise the master vol.

[JPJ]

3 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Thanks. I was actually getting a bit of distortion on my Xvive U4s for the first time on the vocals. Interestingly we had pushed the gain on the fem vox up quite a bit - guess need to bring her down and simply cut the rest, and then raise the master vol.

For reference my X-Vive starts to clip if i push the aux master much beyond -18db on the meter (Behringer X-Air XR18) but it might go earlier if i have individual channels that are regularly ‘in the yellow’ gain-wise.