Ok.. very unique situation for me.. I own 5 XDV wireless units.. 4 of them handheld and one is a G30 bodypack.
I normally have my rig set up for music, but last night we had a comedy show, a bunch of stand up comedians .
I had one wireless microphone ( XDV-35 ) running and I actually had the mixer with the G30 bodypack plugged in to the output on the mixer and wirelessly sent the signal to the XDV35 reciever to my mains at the stage ( about 30 feet away ) . I wouldnt do this if it was a music event for alot of reasons but it worked and worked very well other than what happened
Both units were in RF-1 Mode. Here is what is crazy. I had the reciever on the stage for the G30 on the floor of the stage area which was basically the level of the audience's shins. the transmitter was on the table and I had no issues, zero no problem at all..
The handheld unit, which was in the hands of the comedians when on stage which was at least a foot over the heads of the audience between the stage and the sound table... line of sight was really not an issue,.. We started having very bad dropouts during the second comedian.... I even switched channels, no change, I switched out microphones, no change... I even piled up a bunch of cases and made sure that the unit and the microphone were all completely over the heads of the seated audience, a little better but it got choppy at times... what made the dropouts stop competely was when i turned the reciever around so that the LED display was facing the stage... Once I did this, I had 3 bars the whole time and a drop out free night... I typically the sound table set off to the side a bit and really have NEVER had a droput in 2+ years of owning these units...
Here are my questions...
1. Is there an issue the reciever?
2. Why is line of sight so imporant with the microphone and not so much the G30
3. Do the recieveres need to be facing the stage (LED/Knob side) ?
