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!
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?
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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?
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.
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 🤓
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.
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?
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.
Thanks for the tutorial. You just saved me a ton of time setting up my church's IEM mix!
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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.
Hi dear. Please i would like to know where you bought. Thanks
Rodrigo Martins I bought it zzounds. Sweetwater is also a great place to buy it too. It’s back to regular price though
Dope! Thank you for the explanation on the focus mode, I had a hunch about it but you cleared it up for me! Thanks again!
THANK YOU!! So well done and fixed my sync and sound issues! well done...
Glad it helped!
Thank you! I've been trying to figure out how to run two different sizes through my one receiver to two packs! Works great!
Thank you. We just rocked out with caulks out 🎉
Really helpful rundown!
Thanks for explaining how to run the signals independently. I could not get proper explanation. 👍🏼
xsistor1 no problem. If you get a chance like and subscribe.
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!
This is a transmitter, the wireless mic uses a receiver
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?
Which output is best? Mic or line?
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?
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.
Thanks for the video, all very clear, but I have a question, how many receivers can I connect to a single frequency??
Truthfully, as many as you want.
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?
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.
Yes you can do that
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.
one year later but i think it cause of pilot tone
thanks one year later . As i remenber the problem caused by the pilot tone
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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To decrease peaking
Where'd you get those Sennheiser AA batteries? I want some!
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.
@@matthewluedtke3467 it is, thank you. We ended up with 2 aux and bodypack set to stereo and indeed it works fine
side by side, how do you mount the antennas to the front?
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.
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 :)
Same. It’s also true for my Shure system so maybe there’s no way around it.
Sadly, it’s the nature of the beast. All the companies do it. As soon as you get any volume going though you won’t really hear the small bleed.
What wireless channel should you buy? It gives three options.
Frequency A 516-558 MHz
Frequency G 566-608 MHz
Or Group A1 470-516 MHz
The way everything is looking A1
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.
@@rodrigomartins9692 Could not figure it out. We sent them back and ended up getting some Shure In Ear Monitors. No issues at all and have been great
@@willsharp2325 Cool. No doubt Shure is an excelent system too.
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.
@@emersonburris69 I agree, it's preferable if each musician has their own transmitter/receiver pack
Can this system also work as a wireless speaker application? Thank you.
Yes
i see pilot tone on the receiver but not transmitter?
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’m having a lot of static noise only when I go behind my keyboard and when I hit a key on the keyboard. Any suggestions?
Same here having a lot of fuzz?
try to lift the gain on DI box of keyboard it solved my problem
what frequency is best? I noticed you are running G band. Im in Texas.
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.
These sennheiser units will scan and look for the best frequencies in your immediate area. I scan before every gig.
Thanks!
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)
you should adjust the mic...from the factory they come VERY HOT- we run ours -11 on the transmitter and -6 on the mic...
Hello friend, great video, however, I have the same unit (basically new), and my range is approximately 50 feet! Help!
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.
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?
Stephen Kamin at 18:58 that was what we were talking about. You are completely correct.
@@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?
I take it when that when you're running Focus the signal goes to both ears, like mono
Richard Doubleday correct.
So, basically you can only have one mix in both receivers?
You did not understand what you've watched please watch it again and again and again to understand the full context
Hey guys, is there a way to remove the ability for person using the mic to mute?
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.
Please help. My unit keeps going into sleep mode….red light comes on and display goes off. How do I stop this happening?
We have not seen that before.
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 🤓
I see people saying. Hissing noise. I had the same issue. Cleaned my desk and inputs. Cleaned the dust from circuit board. The noise gone now
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.
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?
Iem psm900 shure had more headroom more power , i think i buy the shure now and sale my sennheiser g4 iem 😢
I am experiencing a background noise , sometimes it sounds pretty much like a fan kind of noise, even when the device is not playing anything
Terrible white noise.
This happen with me with Sennheiser EW300
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.
Not more difference !
its the same !
not much difference from G3