Interference Settings

Wifi and Microwaves

Despite the reviews, 2.4GHz is a legit radio frequency for digital wireless audio. In fact, we use it for Bluetooth audio streaming. We use it for WiFi. Even your microwave oven sizzles your food at 2.45GHz.

What we’ve tested with our competition though, is that it generally works, in ideal conditions, in your home, usually. But when it comes down to it we’re all still a little weary of staking our reputation on these systems. 500 cell phones pile into your gig and things start to get hairy. You want to stream from your mobile phone and you start sweating. The venue’s kitchen kicks on their microwaves and you’re reaching for your cable again. So we blame 2.4GHz when we should be blaming the wireless designers.

AirLock takes a revolutionary approach to providing low-latency audio transmission with a focus on eliminating drop-outs as a priority. And we know you won’t be able to ask everyone to leave their cell phones outside – you need the vids! So the radio system is designed to use two channels at once (aka “diversity”) and operates over 40 channels in the 2.4GHz space. And – per FCC law – we have to constantly monitor free channels and hop over if an ambulance drives by, or one of our pesky competitors refuses to obey the rules and squats on the channel they made you pre-set at the

beginning of the night.

Not only that, but AirLock can do this while 8 sets of transmitters and receivers are together on stage. The other major products don’t do this – just sayin’. Remember, they made you choose channels during the chaos of setup?

To achieve all of this and still provide you with stellar audio quality, it takes just 3.3ms. Is that the lowest latency on the market? Nope. But is it only 1ms longer than the shortest one that for the longest time has been known to experience the most drop-outs and is that worth it, we think so.

Interference Switch

But you’re still nervous about 2.4GHz. We get it. So we put you in control. We created the “Interference” setting to better inform the radio algorithm about the wifidensity you’re dealing with. It’s kind of like if you were getting one bar on your mobile phone and nothing was loading and thought, “if I could do something about this, even if it took a little longer to buffer, I’d try it.” Well, sort of like that.

Normally, run in the Low setting using the “Interference” switch on the transmitter. But when the place gets packed and you’ve gotta nail this set, you can select a Medium or High setting. And at the sacrifice of a little latency, you can have drop-out-free audio. In fact, we extensively tested a host of competitors in a room full of WiFi routers, cellphones, laptops, a microwave (for real), and more and our High setting was flawless, and that’s only 4.9ms latency, kids.