EarAmp UHF WIRELESS IN EAR MONITOR OWNERS MANUAL U.S.
Table of Contents Introduction 1 System Features 2 QuickStart 3 Guided Tour - Wireless EarAmp® Transmitter Front Panel 4 Guided Tour - Wireless EarAmp® Transmitter Rear Panel 5 Guided Tour - Wireless EarAmp® Receiver 6 Setting Up and Using the Wireless EarAmp® 8 Appendix A: Setting the Wireless EarAmp® Radio Frequency 10 Appendix B: Wireless EarAmp® Channel Plan 11 Appendix C: Using 2 CH Mode 12 Appendix D: Using Third-Party Earpieces 13 Specifications 14 Produced by On The Right Wavelength for Samson Tech
Introduction We know you don’t like reading owners manuals, but you’ve just purchased one of the most unique wireless audio products around, and we want to tell you about it! So, before you plug in and start making music, we’d like to suggest you take just a few moments out to scan these pages. We’ll make it as painless as possible, we promise—and, who knows, you might just pick up a tip or two. The Samson Wireless EarAmp® is designed to bring professional in-ear monitoring to a wide range of users.
Wireless EarAmp® System Features The Samson Wireless EarAmp® system utilizes state-of-the-art technology in personal monitoring. Its main features include: • Excellent audio quality, with superior frequency response and low distortion. • An extraordinary degree of frequency agility. The operating frequency can be selected either by Group and Channel (there are 8 Groups of 16 Channels each) or by direct frequency selection (in 25 kHz increments between 614.35 and 662.0 MHz).
QuickStart If you’ve had some prior experience using wireless systems, these QuickStart instructions will get you up and running with your Wireless EarAmp® system in a matter of minutes! Detailed instructions for setting up and using your Wireless EarAmp® can be found on pages 8 -11 of this manual, and the “Guided Tour” sections on pages 4 - 7 provide full descriptions of all transmitter and receiver controls and displays. 1.
Guided Tour Wireless EarAmp® Transmitter Front Panel 1 SAMSON 2a 2b 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 ANTENNA PHONES PHONES LEVEL EarAmp ® INPUT LEVEL LEFT +6 STEREO TRANSMITTER -2 0 2 -4 -2 4 -6 6 0 0 2 -4 -6 4 RT80 UHF SYNTHESIZED 8 -10 10 RIGHT CH. UP PROGRAM GROUP -12 -6 DOWN 6 -18 -8 POWER 9 -8 FREQ 8 -10 10 1: Power switch - Use this to turn the main power on and off. When the transmitter is on, the display section (see #9 below) is lit.
Guided Tour Wireless EarAmp® Transmitter Rear Panel 1 2 3 4 5 3 6 8 7 9 8 PUSH PUSH CAUTION USE SAMSON AC ADAPTOR ONLY RT80 UHF SYNTHESIZED STEREO MONITOR TRANSMITTER -2 STEREO 0dB MONO -15dB 0 4 -10 MADE IN USA - LEFT AUX INPUT (MONO) AUX INPUT ATTENUATOR RIGHT AUX INPUT 2 1 3 0dB -15dB 1 3 XLR 1 GND 2 HOT 3 COLD A 6 8 -8 SERIAL NUMBER 2 2 -4 -6 LOOP THRU + DAISY CHAIN AUXILIARY CABLE LOCK: AND TIE MAIN INPUTS INTERFACE SAMSON DC INPUT 10 AUX INPUT LEVEL RJ4
Guided Tour - Wireless EarAmp® Receiver 1: Battery door release - Press this latch gently upwards in order to open the battery door and access the controls contained within. When closing the battery door, swing it gently upwards until you hear this latch click. EarAmp® 1 2 2 SAMSON UHF STEREO MONITOR AMP 2: Antennas - In normal operation, these two antennas should be placed in a vertical position; however, the swivel mountings can be used to adjust the antenna positioning as necessary.
Guided Tour - Wireless EarAmp® Receiver 10 11 12 13 14 15 PHONES R L LOUDNESS VOLUME TX BALANCE 10: Headphone jack - Connect the supplied stereo earbuds (or third-party earpieces—see Appendix D on page 13 in this manual for more information) to this standard 1/8" (3.5 mm) mini-phone jack in order to monitor the signal being output by the Wireless EarAmp®. The level of the headphone signal is set by adjusting the Volume control (see #12 below). Maximum output is 200 mW @ 32 ohms.
Setting Up and Using The Wireless EarAmp® Setting up your Wireless EarAmp® is a simple procedure which takes only a few minutes: 1. Remove all packing materials (save them in case of need for future service) and locate the Wireless EarAmp® transmitter so that there is an unobstructed line of sight between it and the receiver(s) in your system (any number of receivers—all receiving the same signal—can be used with a single transmitter.
Setting Up and Using The Wireless EarAmp® 8b. In the receiver, turn the Program switch off, then on (towards the “up” arrow) and then, within ten seconds, press and hold the transmitter’s front-panel Program button for at least three seconds in order to program the receiver; when correctly programmed, the TX LED on top of the receiver will flash (see Appendix A on page 10 in this manual for more details).
Appendix A: Setting the Wireless EarAmp™ Radio Frequency The Samson Wireless EarAmp® is extraordinarily frequency-agile, offering more than 128 different radio frequencies and two different modes of operation. In Group/Channel mode, you can access a factory-programmed channel plan (see Appendix B on the following page) that allows you to use up to sixteen different systems together at the same location (assuming all frequencies are available).
Appendix B: Wireless EarAmp® Channel Plan Wireless EarAmp® Channel Plan: (All frequency values are in MHz) Channel Group 38 Group 39 Group 40 Group 41 Group 42 Group 43 Group 44 Group 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 614.35 616.10 616.50 617.40 619.30 620.00 614.70 615.05 615.40 615.75 617.00 617.80 618.15 618.50 618.85 619.65 620.35 622.10 622.50 623.40 625.30 626.00 620.70 621.05 621.40 621.75 623.00 623.80 624.15 624.50 624.85 625.65 626.35 628.10 628.50 629.40 631.30 632.00 626.
Appendix C: Using 2 Ch Mode The Wireless EarAmp®’s unique dual mono “2 CH” mode makes it possible for you to have direct control over the blend of two separate signals, simply by turning the Balance knob. If you’re a vocalist, the most typical application is to route the vocal signal only to one mixer aux send and the instrument accompaniment signal to the other aux send, as shown in the illustration below.
Appendix D: Using Third-Party Earpieces If you listen to the earbuds supplied with the Samson Wireless EarAmp™ on their own, they may sound a little overbright to you. That’s because they have been specifically designed to allow a certain degree of outside sounds to enter so as to yield a natural sound onstage, where bass frequencies will “leak in” to make for a full-spectrum tone.
Specifications SYSTEM Frequency Coverage 614 to 662 MHz Channels Available Channel Selection Transmitter: 128 (8 groups with 16 channels each) Direct frequency selection to nearest 25 kHz Front panel selection of group and channel or direct frequency select Backlit LCD indicates actual operating frequency at all times, in addition to group and channel Receiver: Auto programmed via RF data transfer from transmitter Program mode is activated by program switches on transmitter and receiver RF Range: A
