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<blockquote data-quote="Art Welter" data-source="post: 40223" data-attributes="member: 52">Re: Creating a better money channel in IEM landJay,I have to admit I never have adjusted the actual in ear delay time, my experience was with recording (overdubbing) my voice and finding the digital latency made it sound even worse than it does, at the time I did not think of trying to add a little delay to get out of the “suck” zone. Although I won’t be winning any singing contests, I had no trouble believing my voice sounded OK before through an analog set up with phones, while the digital latency messed up the sound of my voice (in ears) really badly. Frankly, I’m surprised more singers don’t complain about it, but if you grew up on digital, you would not have something to compare it too.Before changing delay, the polarity switch (“phase reverse switch” ) should be tried, even with an analog set up.&nbsp; With as many places to get a polarity swap in a RF mic and in ear phones chances are fairly good a swap may have occurred somewhere in the chain.&nbsp; A polarity swap&nbsp; is quite apparent when I listen to my voice through phones through an analog desk, while I’d never notice it on someone else’s voice, or my mic alone through a wedge or side fill.&nbsp; That said, the&nbsp; digital latency problem won’t be eliminated by a polarity switch, but the switch may subjectively be better than adding more delay to get out of the critical range.Art</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Art Welter, post: 40223, member: 52"] Re: Creating a better money channel in IEM land Jay, I have to admit I never have adjusted the actual in ear delay time, my experience was with recording (overdubbing) my voice and finding the digital latency made it sound even worse than it does, at the time I did not think of trying to add a little delay to get out of the “suck” zone. Although I won’t be winning any singing contests, I had no trouble believing my voice sounded OK before through an analog set up with phones, while the digital latency messed up the sound of my voice (in ears) really badly. Frankly, I’m surprised more singers don’t complain about it, but if you grew up on digital, you would not have something to compare it too. Before changing delay, the polarity switch (“phase reverse switch” ) should be tried, even with an analog set up. With as many places to get a polarity swap in a RF mic and in ear phones chances are fairly good a swap may have occurred somewhere in the chain. A polarity swap is quite apparent when I listen to my voice through phones through an analog desk, while I’d never notice it on someone else’s voice, or my mic alone through a wedge or side fill. That said, the digital latency problem won’t be eliminated by a polarity switch, but the switch may subjectively be better than adding more delay to get out of the critical range. Art [/QUOTE]

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