XVive wireless IEMs sounding horrible...

[jbird5150]

Playing in a worship group to a room of about 250. Only playing patches and snapshots. Set up has been Pod Go with Headrush 108 monitor, out to DI box, into to PA/Mixing board. Worked pretty well. Now they want us to use Xvive wireless IEMs. 

They sound horrible, like listening through an old transistor radio. No tone, no presence, just a barrage of irritating noise. Tried adjusting guitar volume and tone, wireless volume, PG master volume, mix, nothing seems to help. 

Wondering if the cabling setup is wrong. Guitar cable out to guitar, Mono left out to DI box with balanced TRS, DI box out to PA/mixing board using XLR. Wireless unit out of another XLR from mixing board for IEM monitoring. I can hear other instruments/vocals in the mix but my guitar sounds terrible through the in ears. Sounds decent out the PA to the house but I can't tell what I'm playing half the time. 

If anyone could help that would be great. Maybe global settings adjustment? 
 

[ricstudioc]

Hard to get specific, there are tons of variables here.  I used an XVive U4 for the last couple years with my prior band and they worked a treat. 

 

So, you're getting a cue mix back from the board, the other instruments sound fine but not your guitar?  That, to me, eliminates the XVive and the earbuds you're using.  So - what's the make/model of the mixer?  The band I mentioned used an X32, each one of it's cue mixes could easily have extensive EQ inserted, as well as(if I recall correctly) sends to that cue mix.  So you might want to have a sit down with your FOH guy, see if there's an answer there if the mixer is comprehensive enough.

 

 

[theElevators]

Why don't you simply try running your Pod Go at home and connect headphones, to hear for yourself what it sounds like? 

 

It could be that your sound is very in fact very tinny.  That happened to me when I got Headrush FRFR 108 to dial in my sound.  The problem with that speaker is that it's very bass-heavy.  It must be placed on a stand, otherwise it rattles the entire stage.  It's not as unbiased as a mixing monitor is. 

 

So when I played my very first concert using Line 6 Helix, the sound guy told me that my sound was absolute garbage--it has absolutely no bass, and was tinny and shrill.  Afterwards I got myself mixing monitors and that's what I've been using ever since to dial in my sounds.  Once I figured out the main formula of what worked, I stick to the same amp/EQ settings, and simply dress up my sounds as needed for any new song I need to play.

 

Take a look at the Helix forum, there're lots of "lessons learned" posts about dialing in your sounds.  If your sounds are great coming out of the FRFR, maybe the FOH guy has to do some adjustments to make your guitar sounds suitable for the house PA.  But if you take that very same sound without any adjustments and run it into your headphones, you get that tinny AM radio sound.