Wireless For Bass

[Gank Bass]

The 1st gen Shure glx can be found for £200 these days (i got mine for this b.i.n on eBay a couple of years ago) Really can't go wrong with that!

 

 

[Stealth]

I bought the NUX 5ghz ones really pleased love the battery bank case got me out of the woods twice so far lol

[prowla]

On 22/06/2025 at 13:50, Woodinblack said:

ok, puzzlingly I did a trial with the WS90 and a cable through to a spark 40 with everything turned up and an overdrive on, and I couldn't tell the difference between the wireless and cable. So I thought maybe it was the WS90 Rx connected to the back of the Mod Dwarf, so i tried that, and again, no actual noise until I play with my 'whole lot of love full distortion' patch, and no difference between the cable and the wireless, so I think I must be looking in the wrong place. Which is a concern, I can't think of any more places! 

I once tried a Darkglass distortion pedal and it turned my (wired) setup into a noise magnet.

The thing is, distortion introduces high frequencies, which therefore make things susceptible to high frequency noise.

[dave_bass5]

42 minutes ago, prowla said:

I once tried a Darkglass distortion pedal and it turned my (wired) setup into a noise magnet.

The thing is, distortion introduces high frequencies, which therefore make things susceptible to high frequency noise.

Ive just had this happen to me recently. Got the Ampeg SGT-DI and although my WS90’s work fine most of the time, when the preamp is disengaged and the IR is on, my WS90 picks up all sorts of noise. Really loudly. Even when off.  Cable and 2.4ghz Xvive’s are fine. 

Even with my EBS Microbass 3, just having the WS90 plugged in and putting my had close give a sound simply to when a cable is unplugged. When it’s on it s fine. 

Might be a faulty receiver. Again, no issues with the Xvive. 

[Paul S]

On 29/06/2025 at 12:11, Schlippy said:

Surprised there's been no mention of the Boss WL-50, they're the best wireless adapter on the market IMO. As well as the usual advantages of freedom of movement and no coil whine/hum, they've got:

• a lovely chonky wireless adapter that plugs into your axe with a satisfying thunk, holds 8-12 hours charge and has a green-amber-red indicator to let you know how much charge it has left
• a standard Boss pedal-sized receiver / charging dock that sits nicely at the beginning of your pedal chain, runs on batteries as a backup, has a 9V out socket as well as a 6.35mm input jack just in case, and has three latency settings for emulating different cable lengths (no idea why tho lol).
• incredibly low latency latency of 2.3ms as standard, I believe even the most finely attuned human ear can't detect latency under 10ms
• 14 distinct onboard channels so despite only running at 2.4GHz even if there's a fair bit of contention at that frequency you're unlikely to collide with other signals
• up to 65 feet line of sight 

The only potential downside is if you like to store the adapter in the charging dock between sets and you keep your pedalboard unplugged, you need to remember to not fully insert the adapter otherwise it thinks it's in use and drains the battery. Boss maybe missed a trick there by not having a footswitch on the charging unit to toggle between charging modes.

 

I just happen to have one of these in the classified at the moment for the knock down price of £100 posted.