TRANTEC S4.4 Wireless mic Video 2

0:00 Video number two on the wireless microphone from a company called Tran

Alright folks, video number two on the wireless microphone from a company called Trantec. Now this particular microphone is known as the S4.4. Now first of all I'll show you what's in the box. I'll explain a little bit about the microphone, what the whole idea is in a sense about wireless, why it's good, why it's bad and certain points to look out for. Now first of all what you get in the box? Well of course you get the wireless microphone. Now in a sense, that is the transmitter. So you talk through here and this guy will transmit a signal, not sound. It transmits a signal. And then the signal is picked up by this guy here which is known as the receiver. And then what happens, you will attach a cable, which I'll talk about in a minute, from here into the back of your DJ mixer or let's say a band mixer etc.

1:48 Wavy line, point, microphones

You get the receiver, you get this guy here which is the power supply. Only use power supplies associated with the items you buy. In other words, when you open a box and there's a power supply in it, it's there for one reason only and that is to be used with the item that it's in with. Do not think that this is quite happily usable with something else because there's a good chance it could... Click on the link in the description for more information. Click the link in the description for more information. But these sort of frequencies that travel through the air from, let's say, the microphone, the transmitter to the receiver. Now let's imagine that signal is a wavy line and let's say on that wavy line at a tiny little point here, that's where the signal will go from your microphone, the transmitter into the receiver. Now quite often, let's say for example in, let's say, a band environment you've got people who've got loads of different microphones.

Now what they have to do, they will have to have say one of the microphones will be at this point on let's say this wave, another one will be here, here and here. So they'll be at different points. You can never have two microphones at the same point because what will happen you'll get these horrible noises and clashes and goodness knows what will happen. So in other words you have to always be at different frequencies. Now let's say for example you turn up to a venue and we're looking at this wavy line and you're just about here And there's, say, a band member. So you're the DJ or you're a band member and there happens to be another band and let's say they've got a similar microphone or they've got a microphone that's on the same frequency and they're here. What will happen is you'll find you can't use your microphones. But what you can do with this is you can maybe go from here, so the other guy is here or girl's here, and you can go to there. So you're both perfect. But how do you do it? Right, if we have a look, first of all, let me just show you. Open the microphone up.

You twist it and open, that is the battery. Now if I take the battery out like so, you can see the polarities plus and minus. Check to make sure plus and minus match up in there. I won't put that back for a second. If we turn it around, we can have a look at the back here. Now you'll see, hopefully you can see just about the word or the letters C and H. Now that is short a channel. And we have 1, 2, 3 and 4. Now the reason for that, I'll explain in a second, we have on the back of the receiver, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Now the reason for that is going back to this sound wave. Let's say for example this point here on the sound wave is 1, then here it's 2, 3 and 4. Basically what that means, if you've got someone else which is at point 1, you can switch to point 2.

4:09 Those in a future video

If you've got someone else at point 2, you can switch to point 1, 3 or 4. I hope you get what I'm getting at there. Also on the back of this guy we have the input for your power. We have these two guys here which is gain and mute level. I'll explain those in a future video. And we have this guy here which is the jack output and the XLR output. Now again, some people ask me about should I use jack or XLR. Now this is not gospel, this is just sort of a rule of thumb. Let's say for example, this guy here, which is the receiver, is about one or two feet away from your mixer. Then you can use quite easily the jack because there's not much distance between this guy and the mixer. But let's say for example, this guy here, the receiver, is the other side of the stage,

If you're 10, 20 or 30 meters away then it's very important you use XLR balanced because basically what this is it's almost like a shielded cable that will stop nasty frequencies getting into the cable and messing around with the sound or the signal should I say not the sound I beg your pardon going into your mixer so there you go now also these guys here are the antennae it's very important when you're using the microphone not to have them like that Ideally they need to be like that, in a sort of a V shape. There you go. Alright, so video number two on this guy here from Trantec. I'll put a clickable link in the description. It's known as the S4.4 and I shall be using this and hopefully I'll do another video very shortly where I'll walk down the road and make funny noises. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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