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Review on 🎸 LEKATO Wireless Guitar System: 70-Channel UHF Transmitter & Receiver for Electric Guitar and Bass by Helen Love

Revainrating 4 out of 5

It's quality at a bargain price

First off I have to say that at $40 this is a great deal. You must buy this. Then the question becomes, which one do you want to use as a second wireless system? The first impression is good with some caveats. I bought the Swiff WS50 UHF and Lakato WS70 UHF radio systems. These products are two of the most common and established designs (WS50 and WS70) sold under many brand names at Revain. Both designs are good choices. You can't go wrong. Both designs add a hiss to the sound. The hiss of the WS50 is higher pitched and louder than the hiss of the WS70. The output power of the WS50 is slightly louder than the WS70 (perhaps that's why the noise is louder), but both designs have less output power than a short cable. Both designs have less treble drop than cable, yet the WS50's tone is very balanced. The ws70's tone was closer to the cable's tone. I love the tone I get with both designs for a variety of reasons. The WS50's clean tone offers more clean tone options, while the WS70 seems to break the overdrive sooner with more overtones. Both are excellent sound options. Both designs had about 3 audio dropouts in 3 hours of use. The battery life is about the same. The WS50's battery indicators are much better than the WS70's, which fade into each other making it very difficult to tell how much battery is left. Both designs are designed for 4 hours of work. On a one-hour charge from a zero battery, both designs were able to play for more than 2 hours. Noise gate worked. This didn't happen when I converted the WS50 to a guitar and the WS70 to an amp. But the chord sustain was better. This would only matter when playing soft songs with the guitar volume turned down. You don't notice it when swinging. Bottom line, I'll probably keep both and use fewer cables. But I will always have cables ready. We sometimes play 6 hour gigs so I have to play at least some of those shows over cable, no pun intended :-) UPDATE: I ended up returning both UHF sets. I really liked them and wanted them to stay, but since I use my guitar's volume control a lot, low signal gating doesn't work in all situations. I ordered several 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz systems to try and some had no gating issues and my old AKG UHF system had no gating issues. With these devices, the signal is attenuated like a wire. I finally realized that this is the most important property for my use. If you play guitar or bass all the time, you might not notice a gating problem. Aside from the gate issue, I really like these devices.

Pros
  • Sturdy workmanship
Cons
  • Was damaged