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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: kevilay on February 11, 2012, 01:20:05 PM

Title: wireless guitar?
Post by: kevilay on February 11, 2012, 01:20:05 PM
Has anyone tried playing around with making a wirelsa guitar setup at all ?
Title: Re: wireless guitar?
Post by: DavenPaget on February 11, 2012, 02:00:08 PM
It's opamps in their path that scares some people  :icon_mrgreen:
Title: Re: wireless guitar?
Post by: amptramp on February 11, 2012, 03:23:41 PM
I actually picked up a couple of wireless baby monitors for just this type of thing.  They both have two channels so if there is a real baby on the air, you can switch channels.  Or you can give some mother the scare of her life when you hit a towering diminished seventh or play death metal.  Should be fairly simple to bypass the microphone on the transmitter and add a guitar input in its place.  Should also be easy to bypass the receiver speaker and use it as an output.  Be warned - the transmitter will probably require a big battery.  Each transmitter/receiver pair with two wall-wart supplies was $5 at a garage sale.  Just a thought - it may not go with the cool studded leather heavy metal getup and the other stuff you wear at a gig if your guitar is hooked up to something that says "Fisher - Price". ::)
Title: Re: wireless guitar?
Post by: Puguglybonehead on February 11, 2012, 04:46:49 PM
Hmmmm..... This might be worth looking into. The adapted baby-monitor rig ($30.+) would be a fraction of the price of say an AKG or Shure system. ($100 - $600) Hopefully the results wouldn't be too lo-fi and no Spinal Tap episodes. There are also a lot of inexpensive FM transmitter/receiver kits available online.
Title: Re: wireless guitar?
Post by: deadastronaut on February 12, 2012, 02:55:31 PM
i did this a while back...works a treat.....cheap ass wireless.. :icon_cool:

guitar into pedalboard..out into fm transmitter, tune radio...use it in your car radio etc....  it just needs a buffer from guitar to transmitter..to be totally wireless (i.e no pedalboard) ;)

take output of radio into your amp..voila'