Ok,I am usually the guy who rolls his eyes when guitar setup is mentioned, and I usually mention how old my guitars are, and that they have never been set up as far as I know. I finally got curious enough to put a metal a straight edge on the frets (I have an 18" metal ruler that is perfect), my 43 year old Peavey Patriot showed maybe a mm or more of space between the edge and the 9th fret. I adjusted the truss rod and after a bit of tightening, when I spanned the frets, the straight edge was right at the point where the straight edge was just starting to touch the center frets, I checked it out, and the action was kind of like look at the guitar and say A, and it plays A. I decided while I was at it, I would adjust the pickups a little, and now, it's just a rock and roll machine! I played it a couple of days until I couldn't stand the itch any longer, and swapped the Peavey out for my 06 Strat, and ran the same deal on it. I first found that it FELT like the truss rod was getting looser as I turned the Allen nut clockwise, and my measurement seemed to bear that out, so I went with what was working, it seemed like a lot of turning, but eventually I got to the point where it was a fair fit getting an omni guitars business card between the center frets and the straight edge. I tuned it up, and adjusted the pickups a bit, and it is just a delight to play now. There may be room for improvement, but I am in no hurry to play with my bridges or my nuts... no pun intended.

As I have gotten a second Irin IN80 wireless connector, I needed to come up with addition tests, I did test the battery life, finding that it ran a similar length of time before it started flashing to be recharged, so out of curiosity, I denied it until it reached 9 hours. By this point, the receiver was flashing as well. There were no issues with running both units side by side, no interference, on connection issues. Because I can only play one giutar at a time, I connected the 1/4" balance transformer to my mic, and got a female to female 1/4" coupler, and made a poor man's wireless mic, which actually worked extremely well! I would say there was no noticeable loss of signal level, the mic was every bit as dynamic as it had been, if anything maybe a little bit warmer tone. Looking at the balance transformer, it occurred to me that if I can find any variance in the battery life of devices, it is likely due to the impedance of the device the transmitter is plugged into. I will test the lifespan in mic mode to see if there is a significant difference between the guitar and the mic. This has caused my brother to become wireless curious, so he has my old rig, he has enjoyed it so much, HIS first Irin IN80 is on it's way, and he is asking shouldn't he have two as well? The way they work together and separately, why not?

I have avoided picking up a lot of foot pedals, because the first thing I see is it leads to a snake pit of power supplies, maybe some power straps, etc. and I do not have the floor space to begin with, plus my current snake pit is fairly epic already. So I wonder is there a solution out there I am not aware of, or is this something Omni Guitars could look at? I kind of see something that has 4-6 outputs, maybe have selectors at each output for voltage and tip polarity, and include a variety of cables with various sizes of tips, each cable ends in M 3.5mm phone jack, and each output has 3.5mm F jack?

Thanks guys, the spare wireless rig came today! I will go ahead and test it as rigorously as I did the first one, it will be interesting to see if this one has similar playtime. 😉😀

What are your oldest playable instruments/ usable gear? Mine is an old Harmony Parlor guitar from the 1940s I got at an estate sale. I also have an Aria violin bass and a Global Les Paul copy, both from the early 1970s. I’ll post pictures later when I have a little more time; I’m currently getting ready for church lol.