Technical Question about Bluetooth

Murago

Ok, so i'm a musician and i'm trying to find a cost effective solution for IN EAR MONITORS. Basically, in ear monitors let me hear what's i'm playing, what others are playing, and how it all sounds. Now, i've come up with a pretty good solution so far. Here's the Wire trail.

I have a microphone that sends the audio to a mixer. After i set my EQ's, the audio goes to a lineout, which plugs into a SONY Bluetooth Adapter. (What this does is turn the hardwire audio source into a bluetooth stream). I then pair the Sony Adapter with a MOTOROLA Dongle (which basically excepts the transmission from the sony adapter). The Dongle has a headphone jack, which my earbuds plug into.

Now, here's the issue. There's a significant delay, and its not something i can deal with, especially since i'm singing. Basically, i hear the guitar playing, and i start singing, but i'm singing late from the actual instrument. Which i don't want to happen. any ideas or recommendations?

Also, i won't just buy a wireless in ear monitor system b/c they are just too over priced! 600 dollars for a transmitter and reciever on analog technology??? For a middle of the line system???? No thanks!

~ fonz

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Murago

Bump...

For real no one has any idea?

DrFrylock

This is certainly an interesting idea, but it sounds like you've got a latency issue in your transmitter, or receiver, or both. Radio transmissions are basically instantaneous, and the audio from the mic to the EQ is probably also instantaneous. So either the encoder or the decoder or both has a small buffer or a delay or something. The latency problem may be endemic to whatever audio codec is built into your Bluetooth devices, or it may be an implementation-specific thing. Google "low latency bluetooth audio" and you'll see some vendors are preparing low-latency alternative codecs, but these are probably not in ordinary cheap shipping products and may never be...