I've had my eye on these for years, this twin system is on sale for $999 right now so I grabbed one. Thanks to this, I'll have no trouble setting up the focus feature.
This is awesome! I'm thinking of buying one but i also have a wireless sennheiser mic. It would be super helpful if you made a video showing how to connect them together!
Any help would be greatly appreciated A few months ago I built two 10-U rigs for live sound for my wedding bands. I’m using the Behringer x32 for my digital mixer/audio interface. I purchased four Sennheiser IEM G4 systems. The first and only one of the four has this terrible error. When I set the frequency and unmute the transmitter, the receiver on the battery pack shows the right side of the AF skyrocketing and there is an awful, persistent high pitch noise I can’t get rid of. Even though I’m sending no sound yet. I’ve tried dozens of open frequencies, changed cables, used a different battery pack for the transmitter, messed with the squelch, nothing has worked. Does anyone have any experience with this issue or know a fix? Please and thank you.
Hi, is there a way to set up mono profiles while on engineer mode? I use the transmiter on stereo mode sync to two different belpacks on focus so I can have two independent mixes, is there a way to create diferent profiles for each one?
I followed these steps and everything worked fine except that I lost the click. I can still hear backing tracks but no click. When I switch back to shared mix the click comes back. Any idea why it does this?
Hi mate, We bought 4 of these along with Behringer xr18. We are getting a terrible White Noise on our inears. Nothing to do with the frequency because we tried it in almost all of the available frequencies. Tried using new xlrs, different guitars, everything. The mix from the mixer directly has no white noise. It’s only when the signal is coming from the sennheiser. We also tried using earphones directly from the transmitter without engaging the receiver and still getting that terrible hiss. Did some research and most common solution was to “deal with it” or get a IEMatch adapter. Do you or anyone know any other workaround?
You can't turn the pilot tone off on the transmitter. You can only set the receiver to evaluate the pilot tone or not. You cannot have the receiver set to receive a pilot tone if the transmitter is in mono mode. Since the transmitter doesn't send the pilot tone in mono mode, you will have RF mute on the receiver if you have the pilot tone evaluation turned on.
I just got this setup for our band, took it to practice, got it working and it suddenly quit. I’m using the headphone feed from the board to give the bandleader and lead guitarist the mix that the audience gets... or that is the idea. I don’t even get sound if I plug in to the headphone jack on the transmitter. There is no reading on the right bar. Tried re-syncing the body packs and the transmitter. The main problem is that i have no idea what I’m doing. I am trying to fix that. Not really that keen on the manual as an interactive app. Maybe that’s how the twenty somethings roll. I’m in the “give me a fekkin paper manual with a table of contents and a good index” age group.
Great video. Very helpful. Thank you! One quick question: Why did you change the sensitivity from -18 to - 27. What is the benefit of have made that change?
Can someone tell me how much better this is than the Phenyx Pro True Stereo UHF IEM. I need clarity and low end for studio use. Is this system as good as plugging my headphones directly into my interface?
We use antennae distro units that way there is only one antennae. If you don’t want to use that you can use the short BNC cables to relocate the antennae’s to the front of the rackmount.
Interesting. We can usually get extreme distances. Have done the channel scan on the beltpack unit to find the best channels? You can also upgrade to a helical antennae. Also defiantly make sure to keep these as far away as you can from your wireless mic systems to avoid cross talk.
We bought new sets of everything from power boards to mixers and still had white noise issue. Did some research and most common solution was something like “deal with it”. Wouldn’t recommend this system if the white noise can’t be fixed.
If i have 2 instrumentalists sharing the same transmitter (ex: keyboard and guitar) can each musician adjust their volume differently? Example, guitar is 2A and Keyboard is 2B...2A wants to hear louder than 2B on his ear or 2B wants louder than 2A. Will this possible or each has their own transmitter?
Jay Perez yes if you run 2 separate mixes to one transmitter then you can have the receivers set up one to receive 2A and one to receive only 2B and it will work great.
When I focus hard left and hard right on the receivers from one transmitter I still hear a leak from the other mix. Is this as good as it gets or can you get 100% focus? Or… am I doing something wrong. I want to use one stereo transmitter for two mixes. Thank you :)
Why wouldn't you plug in TWO mixes into the rear (aux1 into LEFT - aux2 into RIGHT) and leave the rack unit in STEREO... then put the belt packs 2A & 2B in FOCUS. Then pan 2A to full LEFT and 2B to full RIGHT for two belt packs with TWO different mixes?
@@sweettreeproductions2149 when you use the focus mode with the hard pan to any of the side, you still receive the audio in bloth headphone or just the in the side you choose?
Just got this system recently. I’ve had an issue where it sounds almost like feedback coming through my headphones. Any idea what that might be and/or how to remedy this issue?
Hi Will. Could you handle this issue? It seems that this is a well known issue, sometimes described like you did and sometimes like a hiss or noise floor as well.
Ryan Schumann G will be the most future proof. It is good to check your local television stations and see what they are transmitting on to get a better idea.
What's the process for deciding which frequency to use? I figured there would be an automatic mode or method for finding the best frequency? Manually should I just cycle through a ton of different ones to see which yields the least amount of noise? this seems tedious so I'm probably just not understanding something simple.
There is a scan frequency option in setup that looks for unused frequencies. You don't need to be connected to a network or a computer to use that feature. Go to the Sennheiser website and pull down the product PDF before you purchase. It is explained there.
When I make pilot tone active on my receiver, it doesn't work...no sound, when i make pilot tone inactive it works again...also I have terrible white noise when there is no music.
It sounds like there is something else on the channel you are trying to use. Try changing the frequency. The pilot tone needs to be on to keep you from experiencing the white noise you are talking about.
Hey guys, thanks a lot for the video. We try to use two units in rack along with Art S8 3Way and Behringer XR18. We want a stereo mix in ears but we kinda struggle with connecting it all. So far we just plugged AUX from xair into g4 mono input and set focus mode, but we'd like to go stereo. Do you know any good materials or maybe you know how that could work? Cheers
Not sure why you'd want a stereo signal for monitoring. You'd need a difference between R and L on a channel for it to matter. Regardless, you'd need to send R to one Aux and L to another and plug each in R and L respectively. I think the way you're doing it, you'd want your bodypack to be set to stereo, and you should get sound out of both sides. Hopefully that's helpful.
Sorry. My bad. It’s fine!! I just noticed it goes into standby automatically after a while… when I switch on my transmitter it comes back on. Me being dumb… duh 🤓
Hi mate. Can you plug two receivers to the same transmitter on the same frequency? ie, have two of the belt pocket receivers sending two of the same mixes to Two separate singers.
So if you're sharing one transmitter with 2 packs, using Focus mode to separate to 2 independent mixes, when syncing both belt packs to the same transmitter, are both packs sharing one frequency? Or does the G4 somehow allow transmission of 2 different frequencies? Also, if you are sharing the same frequency to both belt packs, wouldn't that cause static interference?
Generally no, because the belt packs are receivers. They shouldn't interfere because they are only "listening". That being said because of the way the receivers sum the L and R channels, you can sometimes get slight bleed through to one channel or the other, especially if one signal is stronger than the other. Users have reported this, and this effect is also mentioned on Sennheiser's website. Cool little cheat to save some money or get out of a bad spot if you had to, but not recommended.
Just purchased these G4 Twin,Problem I have is when having two Receivers to one Transmitter I here some Bleed from the one aux and reverse to the other aux. I do Pan hard to Right and left. Followed your video to the letter. I guess my question is,Is this normal or should Pack A only hear its self and B only here its self . Thank You for your time
Make sure your transmitters are set to STEREO and your body packs to FOCUS and hard panned. I run 4 transmitters with 8 body packs Stereo/Focus like your setup... I can barely hear the the left in the right and i mean BARELY...... but as soon as you mix something into it it gets lost pretty quick.
This is a known issue because of how the receiver sums L and R to a mono feed. There can be some bleed through from one channel to the other. Sennheiser mentions this on their website. This two packs on one transmitter technique should not be used in a pro setting.
Hello and thanks for the video that you've made.Do you know if i can use a SK 100 G4 transmiter with EK IEM receivers ? I 've made a try but the receiver has the mute indication and of course i can't hear anything - although the RF indication shows strong signal. Do you know any tip to connect these two devices ? Thanks again.
4:37 If you're the kind of person who likes to use frequency groups... you mean, if you're the kind of person who prefers their RF without intermodulation?
I just purchased this Sennheiser IEM and I think I have it working fine except for one thing. The RF meters are peaking when I sing into my wireless Sennheiser EW100 G3 (Mic e835). I know this mic is always very hot and we usually have to tweak the gain on the PA system or we get a lot of feedback. Is there a setting on the G4 IEM transmitter or receiver (or both) that can be tweaked to keep that RF meter from peaking? Any help would be appreciated! (P.S. I'm using different frequencies for each unit)
The Sennheiser IEM has a constant level of ‘hiss’ or white noise floor. This is ‘normal’ for this unit. When you turn the volume up to a normal listening level, it is inaudible.
