Wireless Mic purchase, 600 hrz Senheizer G3

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Jerry Burns

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I went to Guitar Center and purchased a new G3 Senheizer Mic. It is a G band and when I opened it, it appears to be in the 600 hertz range. I think I need to take it back and get one in another range, because next year I won't be able to use it with the new laws. My question is Shure and Senheizer dumping all the 600 hrz stuff now to get rid of it. I'm very confused about this wireless stuff but I do know company's unload there stock if a change is coming. I asked the guy at Guitar Center but he had no idea what I was talking about.
Maybe someone here knows the answer ?
 
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Though rumors have been going around about the sale of the 600mhz band for a while, it has not been official for long, and it is still not official exactaly when it is going to be banned from public use. I would not expect the people at Guitar Center to know all too much about it. As for Shure and Sennheiser I would have to imagine that they have stopped, or at least slowed production of systems in that bandwidth.

The truth is that the system you bought from guitar center could have been sitting in their inventory for more than a year.

I would return it and try to get something in the 400s or 500s
 
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Tim McCulloch said:
http://forums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?topic=149762.0
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+1 (Thanks, Tim) Click Tim's link and read the thread. No need to speculate; the commission has made their plans fairly clear, although they are not set in stone. Your G3 G-band should be fine for years to come, if you learn how to use it correctly.

Luke Robinson said:
I would return it and try to get something in the 400s or 500s
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There are no Sennheiser G3's in the 400s.
 
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Jason Glass said:
+1 (Thanks, Tim) Click Tim's link and read the thread. No need to speculate; the commission has made their plans fairly clear, although they are not set in stone. Your G3 G-band should be fine for years to come, if you learn how to use it correctly.



There are no Sennheiser G3's in the 400s.
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What do you mean use it correctly? I'm not being a smart ass, I let it scan for the best Frequencies and then set the mic to that, did I miss something.
 
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Jerry Burns said:
What do you mean use it correctly? I'm not being a smart ass, I let it scan for the best Frequencies and then set the mic to that, did I miss something.
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The scanning method works OK right now, when steadily transmitting sources (TV stations) are your most likely source of interference, although you can get far more reliable results by doing a FCC database search to determine occupied channels before you scan. Shure's WWB6 is an excellent free tool for that. Here's a website that has a very easy to use and helpful search: http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29

After the 2015 spectrum auction, as the spectrum begins to be used by portable consumer devices that intermittently transmit data, phased in nationwide over 39 months, it will be more important than ever to consult appropriate FCC databases to determine the most suitable frequencies to use. Scans will do no good at all when the spectrum is clear at soundcheck, but then later hundreds or thousands of data transmitters enter the venue in the pockets of your audience for the show and stomp all over your mic.

There is a whole lot more than this involved in using wireless equipment correctly, but it's a good start.
 
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Jason Glass said:
The scanning method works OK right now, when steadily transmitting sources (TV stations) are your most likely source of interference, although you can get far more reliable results by doing a FCC database search to determine occupied channels before you scan. Shure's WWB6 is an excellent free tool for that. Here's a website that has a very easy to use and helpful search: http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29

After the 2015 spectrum auction, as the spectrum begins to be used by portable consumer devices that intermittently transmit data, phased in nationwide over 39 months, it will be more important than ever to consult appropriate FCC databases to determine the most suitable frequencies to use. Scans will do no good at all when the spectrum is clear at soundcheck, but then later hundreds or thousands of data transmitters enter the venue in the pockets of your audience for the show and stomp all over your mic.

There is a whole lot more than this involved in using wireless equipment correctly, but it's a good start.
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Jason, Thank You for the info, that is what I was hoping to learn here. I'm an old Dog but I can learn new tricks. LOL. I do a lot of school work and like you said every thing will be fine in the day time but the event will start and all Hell will break loose. I have some EV re2's that I just sent back to EV to have them checked. They seem to interfere with each other. anyway thanks again.
 
Re: Wireless Mic purchase, 600 hrz Senheizer G3

Jason Glass said:
, phased in nationwide over 39 months,
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Just guessing while we are waiting for the NPRM from the FCC ... but shouldn't that more properly be characterized as "up to 39 months"? Depending on where you are I would think it could also be as short as 12 months. But nobody knows for certain.

Looks like there will be some holes left in the 600MHz band if you are lucky enough to be able to tune into them and they are available at your geo-location but given the choice, I'd go back and switch the units for something in the 500s if possible. There will be coming changes to that band as well but you'll have a little more time to recoup your investment.
 
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Don Boomer said:
Just guessing while we are waiting for the NPRM from the FCC ... but shouldn't that more properly be characterized as "up to 39 months"? Depending on where you are I would think it could also be as short as 12 months. But nobody knows for certain.

Looks like there will be some holes left in the 600MHz band if you are lucky enough to be able to tune into them and they are available at your geo-location but given the choice, I'd go back and switch the units for something in the 500s if possible. There will be coming changes to that band as well but you'll have a little more time to recoup your investment.
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I don't know that 500MHz is going to be a picnic either. The TV channels that sell off their 600MHz bands will have to move down band, or abandon over the air broadcast. Everything below 600 is likely to get a lot more congested than it is now as well.

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