Sennheiser Wireless EW-D and EW-DP with Kemper Stage

  • Sennheiser Wireless with Kemper Stage

    This is the latest EW-D / EW-DP system from Sennheiser. It's digital UHF (not 2.4 GHz).

    I was using the Sennheiser EW-D system with the Kemper Power Rack. The receiver is rack-mountable, and this all works as expected. But when using the Profiler Stage, I wanted a smaller receiver that worked on batteries. The regular EW-D and EW-DX systems are half-rack units powered by an AC adapter.

    Sennheiser recently released the EW-DP (portable) system. The tiny receiver is magnetically mounted on a camera hot shoe. The EW-DP system is compatible with the EW-D systems, and you can purchase the receiver separately.

    The receiver comes with an XLR cable, so I used an XLR to 6.5 mm Tip-Sleeve adapter (with a built-in Lo-Z to Hi-Z transformer). Everything works great. The magnetic mount snaps right onto the Stage and tenaciously sticks in place.

    The transmitter and receiver can run on AA batteries, but I use the Sennheiser rechargeable battery pack for 7-10 hours of runtime.

    Links to the equipment mentioned.

    Sennheiser EW-D CI1 instrument set

    https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ew-d-ci1-set

    Sennheiser EW-DP EK receiver (comes with rechargeable battery)

    https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ew-dp-ek

    XLR to 6.5 mm Lo-Z to Hi-Z impedance transformer/adapter (It doesn't have to be this Shure model. A generic one will work.)

    https://www.amazon.com/Shure-A85F-Tra…h/dp/B0006NMUHW

    I recently switched to the Sennheiser EW-DX system because the half-rack receiver handles two channels. This means I can fit the receiver for the guitar and vocal mic AND the IEM transmitter in a single 1U slot in my rack unit. Typically, you wouldn't mount the IEM transmitter and guitar/mic receiver in the same rack unit, but I'm running external antennas outside the rack - so it's all fine.

    Sennheiser EW-DX Dual system

    https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ew-dx-base-set

    Sennheiser IEM G4

    https://en-us.sennheiser.com/double-wireles…-ew-iem-g4-twin

    Kemper Profiling Amplifier (unpowered) [2014], Remote [2016], Stage [2020], PowerRack, Remote & Kab[2021]
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    Edited 3 times, last by ST (June 10, 2023 at 7:23 AM).