samson wireless headset

[the amazing beaumanz]

i have recently purchased this mic and it is awesome!!!

i am however experiencing a slight problem which i hope to have rectified this afternoon.

my question is this: is there anybody that been having problems with this mic???

although this mic is built for aerobic instuctors, has sweat been a problem???

[Scot Free]

I rented that mic for a month while my Sennheiser was being repaired. The tranmitter rests on the lower back of the head and yes I found sweat to be a problem. My act is very physical and on hot days it was getting soaked. This was a rented system but i decided to take the precaution anyway and wrapped a piece of seran wrap around the transmitter to protect it. The plastic did not interfere with the signal and it kept it dry.


You should also consider getting a lead plate to place between your head and the transmitter so you don't end up with a big 'ole ugly tumor like I did.

[the amazing beaumanz]

thanks scott,
i was wondering if that was a pimple. thank you for the advice!!! it just sucks that the music shop that i had just bought this thing from 32 days earlier is making me ship it off, instead of replacing.
if anyone from the tampa or clearwater area is looking to buy any type of musical equipment do not shop at SEMINOLE MUSIC!!! they don't stand behind there products.

[Pyromancer]

Hi,

I have the Samson airline, the one with the transmitter in the headset itself. It works fine, I use it on my fireshow and it still works, allthough it has to suffer some rough conditions every now and then.
I did experience problems, though. It's a great mic, but it really sucks that it only works on one channel. At one show at Halifax, I picked up some singal, appearently from a two way radio. To make it worse, it was pretty dirty racist language that came through. Disturbing enough in itself, with an added bonus that I was performing for a mostly black audience.
But apart from this, the airline works great, I like the idea of a headset with a build in transmitter. I connected a wire to the 12V battery in my Crate Taxi, to provide me with the necissary juice for it, while I am on the road.

[the amazing beaumanz]

i also do a fire show (eating,juggling,volcano,fire diablo, fire devil stick, etc) i would probably watch how you move the mic away from your mouth when spitting the "blast". this is the only reason that i can come up with that would have caused the "short" in the mic.
i also found via the samson website, that inside the headset transmitter is a screw that adjust the mic volume.
tweeking this ddoes make a diff.

[Pyromancer]

I don't fully understand what you mean, but I take the headset off my head, before I do any spitting, that's why I went for the aitline.

There was no shortcut anywhere, but the receiver picking up the wrong signal...

Pyromancer

[the amazing beaumanz]

i was kinda grabbing the mic itself to pull it away from mouth. not to smart!!! i believe this is what has caused my problem. other than that, i have treated this system like an egg.

[Pyromancer]

Sorry, but I still don't get the connection between your post and my problems. Ofcourse, if you touch the mic itself, it will make noise. Any mic will. That was not my problem at all. My problem was interference with other radio signals. No shortcut, just the receiver picking up the wrong signal. That's all.
And don't move the little arm to the mic itself too much anyway. It causes (little) stress on the (little) wires within. Not too much of a problem at first, but if you have to bend it any time you store the mic, for example, you'll have to deal with a cable break sooner or later.

Pyromancer

[Scot Free]

the fact that the samson only has one channel is it's MAJOR shortcoming. for all its convience and ease of use it becomes useless when a truckdriver with turrets syndrome gets on your one and only frequency. The mic should by default, be set to pick up the the strongest signal by proximity so most of the time you'll be ok. maybe someone with your same mic was fucking with you in Halifax Pyromancer.

[Pyromancer]

It sounded more like a two way radio - there were two people having a racist conversation on my channel. Some other people with the same kind of mic had problems on that stage as well, maybe the rigging acted as some kind of antenna overthere and picked up the wrong signal.
Antoher performer, also with a Samson mic, but then the clip on version, had problems almost all the time, since his mic was set to the same channel as some of the other performers'. I recommended him changing the sinsivity, as described in the manual, but I don't think he ever did, so no data on that one.

btw Scott, see you in Singapore!

Pyromancer

[the amazing beaumanz]

to all with this headset...


i want to say first of all, that the people at samson were awesome!!!! i sent my mic in for a repair and it is now on it's way back to me after only 10 days from shipping it out.

however, after a long chat with both the samson techs and the service center in florida, i have learned that the switches on the units are the most common "repairs" being done. they are VERY fragile.

my other problem was a "short" at the area where the mic meets the "boom" (flex cable). the mic tends to pivot a little at this point and constant adjusting might cause a "short".

i only owned the unit for 37 days before problems occured, and i thought that handled the unit as if it where an egg. guess not.

thanks for the the input everyone

beaumanz

[miquee]

hello everyone...
i just got an airline and want to attach it to my taxi battery... i looked around but didn't see it written anywhere on pnet exactly how you do this... do i just cut off the wall plug, splice the wire, and connect it to the battery... does it make sense to drill a hole in the back of the amp for the wire to come out... i'm not very electronically or mechanically inclined so if someone could explain the proces in detail to me it would be very much appreciated...
thanks and happy hatting
mike

[Kim]

Hi

I assume you mean that you want to power the samson reciever from the taxi battery?

You can just clip on a couple of "2 into 1" splitters on your taxi battery terminals, so that instead of 1 negative and 1 positive, you have 2 of each... This way, you will need to drill a hole in the taxi, for the cable to come out...

OR

You can use the existing socket, designed for charging the taxi from a 12 volt source (car lighter socket etc...)
If you get a electronics guy to make a small change to the circuit board, which bypasses the solinoid*, then the "12 volt chargin input" becomes a "12 volt output"
This is tidier than having an extra bit of wire hanging off your amp.

* The solinoid controls the direction of the current... only letting power ENTER the battery. If you byass it, you can draw power out to run any 12 volt device.

BTW - I'm no electronics genius, so some of my terms and descriptions might be a little flakey.
Oh, and I don't really know how to spell solinoid... In fact, what I described may not even be a solinoid...lol

[gav]

all pretty sound advice Kim, I think it's a diode and not a solonoid though. Diodes only allow current to flow in 1 direction.
I've got this mike as well. I'm onto my second in 3 years. The first 1 was heavily sweat affected and one day when I went to turn it on after not using it for some time, the switch just broke right off!! Not such a big problem, because the mute switch still worked, and I just got in the habit of always removing the battery. That's actually a good thing to do all the time anyway.
They can supply them with a clear rubbery cover for the sender part to help protect from the sweat. Unfortunately I didn't know that untill after I bought my second 1. I recomend drying after the show and storing it with 1 of those liitle silicon packets you find in some products for absorbing moisture.

[miquee]

thanks guys...
now the tricky part will be explaining it to the italian electronics guy...
mike