How do wireless instruments/microphones stay in sync at concerts?

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I’ve seen a lot of the Taylor Swift tour on social media recently and noticed that all the singers and musicians are playing wirelessly. Particularly the guitarists who walk around the stage. Couldn’t the signal drop out? And how does it manage to remain in sync the entire time? Especially in a large venue with a lot of interference (e.g., phones, cellular networks etc).

Is the technology just simply good enough? Because surely they wouldn’t take the risk otherwise. Unless it’s all pre recorded – but surely not right?

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lots of good answers about performance, but the more important part is that the performer is in sync with their in ear monitor. if everybody syncs to their monitor by the time it gets to the speakers it will be clean

if you try to sing in a big stadium and listen to the stadium sound for feedback it can be kind of disorienting like a speech jammer (it came up for people singing the national anthem because they had to practice to avoid hearing the stadium echoes to stay in time)

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