We've been using the iKan Livecom 1000 at my church, which comes with a basestation, 4 beltpacks, and 5 headsets. We have two sets of these systems linked with a 4 wire RJ45 cable to extend our comms to 8 wireless beltpacks, 2 basetstations and 10 total headsets, which allows for a 10 person team to work all on the same page. Super great signal. Our production room is in the balcony, with our camera ops a couple hundred feet away outside the production room walls downstairs on the main floor and we have great reception all over the sanctuary and even beyond.
We have the Hollyland T1000 (which makes the Ikan) great value and feature performance. We do quite a variety of production including outside from a van and the basestation works great. Pre had some Easter that didn't hold up well. Plus we like to be able to choose single or double ear depending on production type.
My church uses the Eartech headsets. We love them. We have a nine piece set. The range is amazing, actually makes it to another building a few hundred feet away, through block and brick walls.
We would get these if we needed two-way comms. Currently we use a Sennheiser HMD 300-Pro headset with mic to monitor/mix livestream audio and send the mic back through the mixer to be distributed to a spare AUX send and spare wireless IEM units we have (Sennheiser supplies 2 receivers in a pack). Audio quality is excellent this way. Plus, you can provide some room audio or your choice to your cam operators if need be as well.
We use these at my church and they work great. As long as our worship minister remembers to charge the batteries they are awesome. Even if the batteries aren’t charged, the charger charges pretty quick.
I had just come from asking about comms this on the facebook group and I got the Eartech recommended. Thanks for doing the review. If you say it, it goes!! I'm definitely buying them
Using it more than 3 years. Different setup, with HUB or Master headset... Working in church, on openspace - everythere my crew enjoying it! Works great!
I was looking into Unity Intercom for our comms as they offer so much flexibility and can grow with us as a church (parking/serve/production teams on their own channel etc). The only downside is our venue doesn't have good wifi coverage so that's where I hesitate. These look good for a low budget solution when it comes to my immediate team members though.
Approach for even less budget: We run one directional Comms from our director to the cam ops just with a cheap Behringer MX882, a bunch of long xlr cables and a couple of Behringer Powerplay P2 with cheap headphones. 300 to 400 Euros for 4-5 Ops. Sure... you can't talk back to the director, but for a regular Sunday production this works quite well for us. Nice thing about the MX882 is it's high-fi audio and you can mute every channel on its on; so if the director wants to speak to the audio-guy, he unmutes this channel.
Thanks! We tried a walkie talkie app on our phones. It worked great till we found out it was global. Someone came on talking in another language so we had to nope out 😃
We use the retevis rt 27s with the s’engraisser gsp300 headsets. Natively the headphone on the rt27s have a 2.5mm jack so we had to buy 3.5mm F to 2.5mm M 3’ cable adapters.
Thanks your help us with this save more money in this hard time during this coronavirus 2019 2020 pandemic praying soon be meet up your guys to help your we use clear comes wireless ones
My church is just using a phone with an app called Discord and our headsets have two ears that doesn't have noise isolation but the app have noise reduction and others controls
At some point, if anything needs to be called in-time or more reliably, switching to a closed network of coms will be highly beneficial. Discord is considered an open network because your phones are communicating to Discord servers and then being sent back to each other device. With a closed network system like in the video or ClearComs, the “server” is now in-house and produced the least amount of delay and highest reliability possible. But on a very tight budget and no need for instantaneous communication, Discord is great for what it is. Though I’ll just stick to using it as voice chat when playing games.
At our church, we set up a local Mumble server and use phones with a mumble app. So it has the benefits of Discord and not the downsides with reliability issues and latency. It's basically free and it works fine so far. It's a great system for small teams.
@@bryanskinner I'm not sure what you are talking about, Mumble and the server software (murmur) is completly free and open-source software. There is no slot threshold, after which you'll have to pay.
What’s difference between the single and duplex eartec comm.. which version of eartec will you recommend for 4 camera person and 1 livestream control person in church settings
Not to mention you can separate people into groups, adding channels to your com system. You can also get some pretty decent bluetooth headsets made for industrial use too! The honeywell sync has been pretty reliable for me
Great review! Question: My church is currently looking for headsets for the band to be able to communicate among themselves. Would those headsets do the job, or should we go with something else. If something else, what would you recommend?
I have been looking at these for a while. How well do the Eartec headsets deal with physical barriers? like several walls (one of them cinder blocks) between the sanctuary and control room?
i re-read your question ha. ideally, your camera folks shouldn't be talking much at all, just receiving commands from the video director about pan, tilt, zoom, focus, etc...
We're currently using a free apps called mumble installed in each tech team phone connected to our own hosted murmur server using wifi . Its like a voip coms 😁
We use 5 of these for about two years now (paired with the Hub) even from inside the control room it works just fine.
We've been using the iKan Livecom 1000 at my church, which comes with a basestation, 4 beltpacks, and 5 headsets. We have two sets of these systems linked with a 4 wire RJ45 cable to extend our comms to 8 wireless beltpacks, 2 basetstations and 10 total headsets, which allows for a 10 person team to work all on the same page. Super great signal. Our production room is in the balcony, with our camera ops a couple hundred feet away outside the production room walls downstairs on the main floor and we have great reception all over the sanctuary and even beyond.
We have the Hollyland T1000 (which makes the Ikan) great value and feature performance. We do quite a variety of production including outside from a van and the basestation works great. Pre had some Easter that didn't hold up well. Plus we like to be able to choose single or double ear depending on production type.
We used that too for a year now.. works wonders even between rooms as long as it’s not too far off.
Sound test would be awesome to hear, but thanks for the Vid.
I was seriously just considering us looking into some headsets, then Jake. awesome. these are now in my amazon cart.
update: we just used our Eartec Headsets for the first time yesterday. They worked perfect. For small church, I too recommend these.
Love this system we have a set of 4... Solid work horse for the last 3 years!
My church uses the Eartech headsets. We love them. We have a nine piece set. The range is amazing, actually makes it to another building a few hundred feet away, through block and brick walls.
We've been using 5 of these for the past 6+ months and love em!
We would get these if we needed two-way comms. Currently we use a Sennheiser HMD 300-Pro headset with mic to monitor/mix livestream audio and send the mic back through the mixer to be distributed to a spare AUX send and spare wireless IEM units we have (Sennheiser supplies 2 receivers in a pack). Audio quality is excellent this way. Plus, you can provide some room audio or your choice to your cam operators if need be as well.
We are using ear techs with a 3 person team and it goes through walls almost 200 feet away and works flawless!!
Brad's expression in the thumbnail is the perfect representation of Sunday mornings.
We use these at my church and they work great. As long as our worship minister remembers to charge the batteries they are awesome. Even if the batteries aren’t charged, the charger charges pretty quick.
This is Russian disinformation.
Haha classic. For those wondering Jake is my worship leader...so I was poking him.
I had just come from asking about comms this on the facebook group and I got the Eartech recommended. Thanks for doing the review. If you say it, it goes!! I'm definitely buying them
Just when I was researching on these and iKan, you showed up - Glory to God.
Using it more than 3 years. Different setup, with HUB or Master headset... Working in church, on openspace - everythere my crew enjoying it! Works great!
We use these with good success. would love the ability to speak to individual ops but for the price these are totally worth it.
I was looking into Unity Intercom for our comms as they offer so much flexibility and can grow with us as a church (parking/serve/production teams on their own channel etc). The only downside is our venue doesn't have good wifi coverage so that's where I hesitate. These look good for a low budget solution when it comes to my immediate team members though.
Approach for even less budget:
We run one directional Comms from our director to the cam ops just with a cheap Behringer MX882, a bunch of long xlr cables and a couple of Behringer Powerplay P2 with cheap headphones. 300 to 400 Euros for 4-5 Ops. Sure... you can't talk back to the director, but for a regular Sunday production this works quite well for us. Nice thing about the MX882 is it's high-fi audio and you can mute every channel on its on; so if the director wants to speak to the audio-guy, he unmutes this channel.
Thanks! We tried a walkie talkie app on our phones. It worked great till we found out it was global. Someone came on talking in another language so we had to nope out 😃
LOOL
We use the retevis rt 27s with the s’engraisser gsp300 headsets. Natively the headphone on the rt27s have a 2.5mm jack so we had to buy 3.5mm F to 2.5mm M 3’ cable adapters.
Very helpful. Thank you for this
Thanks your help us with this save more money in this hard time during this coronavirus 2019 2020 pandemic praying soon be meet up your guys to help your we use clear comes wireless ones
They are the best sets ever
My church just got some. They have made a great impact for the production team
We just got a some of those earlier this week! The range on them is amazing.
Thanks for looking out!
Thank you and God bless!
these are great use these with my team!
My church is just using a phone with an app called Discord and our headsets have two ears that doesn't have noise isolation but the app have noise reduction and others controls
At some point, if anything needs to be called in-time or more reliably, switching to a closed network of coms will be highly beneficial. Discord is considered an open network because your phones are communicating to Discord servers and then being sent back to each other device. With a closed network system like in the video or ClearComs, the “server” is now in-house and produced the least amount of delay and highest reliability possible. But on a very tight budget and no need for instantaneous communication, Discord is great for what it is. Though I’ll just stick to using it as voice chat when playing games.
At our church, we set up a local Mumble server and use phones with a mumble app. So it has the benefits of Discord and not the downsides with reliability issues and latency. It's basically free and it works fine so far. It's a great system for small teams.
@@qwerty-lx6bx yeah but even if it free for less then 14 slots (users) 15 and up cost money... but discord is completely free free
@@bryanskinner I'm not sure what you are talking about, Mumble and the server software (murmur) is completly free and open-source software. There is no slot threshold, after which you'll have to pay.
@@qwerty-lx6bx there are two mumble www.mumble.com/ or www.mumble.info/
What’s difference between the single and duplex eartec comm.. which version of eartec will you recommend for 4 camera person and 1 livestream control person in church settings
Is it loud enough? What's your experience?
We've been using the Mumble app on our phones connected through an isolated WIFI network.
Not to mention you can separate people into groups, adding channels to your com system. You can also get some pretty decent bluetooth headsets made for industrial use too! The honeywell sync has been pretty reliable for me
Do you need the hub for the headsets to work? Might buy a used set of 2, but without a hub. Will they work? Thanks for the help!
Do you guys still use this system or have you seen any others that are comparable?
Hey can you suggest a wireless headset system for me to purchase for my pastor. I need it to wrap on both ears and is lightweight as well
Great review! Question: My church is currently looking for headsets for the band to be able to communicate among themselves. Would those headsets do the job, or should we go with something else. If something else, what would you recommend?
These are the exact ones we use
i wish i could come i learn from u by face to face. this all things are my dream... to build my church also...
If you only buy 2, can you add more later with simple compatibility?
I have been looking at these for a while. How well do the Eartec headsets deal with physical barriers? like several walls (one of them cinder blocks) between the sanctuary and control room?
Is there a system that allows Bluetooth headset use? It would be great to use airpods or Bose units for Comms
You could set up a mumble server on a computer and connect with any smartphone :)
There has to be a phone app that can do this! Am I right?!?!
I came here because I read 'warship'. Not as exciting, but a good review anyway!
Ok, small church question... How do you use comms without everyone in the congregation hearing you talk?
with these comms, just swing the mic up and it will mute. back down and it unmutes. ;)
i re-read your question ha. ideally, your camera folks shouldn't be talking much at all, just receiving commands from the video director about pan, tilt, zoom, focus, etc...
we only talk if we really need to
You’re allowed to have church? Must be nice...
We're currently using a free apps called mumble installed in each tech team phone connected to our own hosted murmur server using wifi . Its like a voip coms 😁
Is that iphone only?
@@BradleyMcCarty Mumble is the protocol, on Android Mumla is a client for that, so you could try that one out.
For mac/pc/linux client is mumble
For android : mumla
For iphone : mumblefy
@@heliportpoe Plumble is another android app for mumble
wow you showed absolutely nothing
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that's not lean...we have one person controlling video - cameras and all - musician controls all audio. that's lean.