Poor Man's Wireless In Ear monitors

[gtrdrumsplayerduarte]

Any help discussing the dynamic range of the FM Transmitter? Does anybody can give a idea if it`s possible to achieve a quality like that TAKSTAR model using a good FM transmitter?

[dswpro]

FM transmitters have a very limited dynamic range if I recall but they are better than nothing.

A while back I looked carefully into streaming audio over Wifi to use a cellphone as an IEM. ( I am a programmer in my day job) Android has a HAL ( Hardware abstraction layer) with a 100 millisecond buffer for audio playback. This is not alterable through app software though it is possible a custom ROM could shorten it. This buffer makes an Android phone pretty useless as an in ear monitor. The IOS platform is pretty locked down so I didn't even bother looking there after my Android investigations.

I think most singers could live with an IEM latency of just under 5 MS. Any longer and their voice will begin to really chorus with their IEM feed. Guitar players and percussionists could possibly stand up to a 10 MS delay. No delay is ideal, but neither is spending 300-1000 USD for a dedicated IEM transmitter / receiver.

[gtrdrumsplayerduarte]

There are some apps that carry audio trough WIFI to android phone and I`ve tested that just to make a wireless playback system. Latency wasn`t a thing to consider for that kind of porpose.
It`s useless for IEM.

Just to add something for the comunity. There`s no latency with FM radio on the android phones I`ve tested but there was noticible latency on a Windows Phone I tested.

[iamlowsound]

Wired in ears are really cheap and much better than wireless. I set our entire church up for less than $300, plus actual in ears, which is the expensive part anyway.

lowsound

[BrentEvans]

Wired in ears are really cheap and much better than wireless. I set our entire church up for less than $300, plus actual in ears, which is the expensive part anyway.

lowsound

+1. If you use a wired mic, you can use wired ears (except maybe for a lead singer that moves a lot).

For fixed position bands... wired is the way to go.