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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Your thinking about it too much
Everything in a concert is using analog signals
Your phone uses digital signals
The difference is analog doesn’t have anything to sync, if you can see it (or in this case detect it) its good
Like FM radio there is a point where it gets bad but for the most part especially in close range everything is perfectly adequate
Your wifi signal though would be digital meaning signal degradation actually results in a significant loss of data that has to be compensated for
Analog-> if you can hear it your good
Digital-> it either works or doesn’t
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