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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You’re getting a lot of weird ass answers here.
The ELI5 answer is that all the wireless stuff in a show stays synced because it’s very high quality, expensive equipment that is designed to run at low latency.
Anything that is running wireless has a DSP (digital signal processor) and this is what would cause a lag between the vocalist singing into a mic and the vocal coming out of a monitor. The mics, antennas, receivers, mixers, all that stuff is high quality and designed to work in a music setting.
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