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.

 

 

[Woodinblack]

I have since found that if I connect a guitar cable between my wireless receiver and the input of my mod dwarf (or boss ME90), it then becomes completely noise free. So it just seems to need the full filter network of a guitar cable to remove the noise!

[neepheid]

No complaints here with the Lekato WS-70, but maybe I'm a cloth-eared idiot.

[stewblack]

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

No complaints here with the Lekato WS-70, but maybe I'm a cloth-eared idiot.

I must be similarly disabled because mine is perfect too.

[BigRedX]

Sounds more like a problem with insufficient RF shielding somewhere in the signal chain.

[JapanAxe]

I’ve been using my Boss WL-20 setup for the last year with few issues. I haven’t noticed any loss of low end - I think that may be an ‘Internet wisdom’ hangover from early systems.

 

Used live I’ve only had problems on two occasions:

(1) Electronic drum kit and bodies between transmitter and receiver in a pub with very little ‘stage’ space. Used a cable instead.

(2) Theatre gig. Fine during soundcheck, in fact I walked halfway up the banked seats in the auditorium to check out the FOH sound. But once the audience were in I kept losing the blue ‘RF found’ LED on the receiver. The signal itself didn’t drop out but I wasn’t going to risk it so in a break between songs I swapped to a 6m cable to preserve stage-strutting privileges as far as possible. I put it down to too many WiFi hotspots in the audience.

Edited yesterday at 11:44 by JapanAxe

[Woodinblack]

5 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Sounds more like a problem with insufficient RF shielding somewhere in the signal chain.

 

Both the Dwarf and the ME-90B seem to do the same, and it is hard to shield the RF on the receiver.

[Stealth]

https://nuxaudio.com/product/c5rc/
 

Sorted my need small no interference and the carry case is a power bank if your caught out 

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Stealth said:

https://nuxaudio.com/product/c5rc/
 

Sorted my need small no interference and the carry case is a power bank if your caught out 

 

Seems to be reports of issues on some active basses. Not sure about systems with TRS plugs.

[StingRayBoy42]

I'm using the Lekato WS-90 and I really like it.

5.8g, no (noticable (to me anyway)) latency, £35 brand new from ebay, decent battery life, no dropouts or interference (yet, touch wood), so simple even a Bass player can operate it (lliterally plug and play)... fantastic bit of kit.

EDIT: Works fine with active Basses

They are a bit ugly and stick-outy, but so am I and I do alright.

Edited 1 hour ago by StingRayBoy42

[dave_bass5]

7 minutes ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

I'm using the Lekato WS-90 and I really like it.

5.8g, no (noticable (to me anyway)) latency, £35 brand new from ebay, decent battery life, no dropouts or interference (yet, touch wood), so simple even a Bass player can operate it (lliterally plug and play)... fantastic bit of kit.

They are a bit ugly and stick-outy, but so am I and I do alright.

After a year with mine im still getting the on/off buttons wrong. I just can't seem to get used to them and always seem to either press the Connect button or try and slide the correct one the wrong way (and I know you slide towards the jack). 

[StingRayBoy42]

1 minute ago, dave_bass5 said:

After a year with mine im still getting the on/off buttons wrong. I just can't seem to get used to them and always seem to either press the Connect button or try and slide the correct one the wrong way (and I know you slide towards the jack). 

Glad it's not just me!

[neepheid]

The WS-70 only has one button, so even an idiot like me can operate it.  It's pretty much bassplayerproof!