LD Systems MEI 1000 G2 Bundle

The unit does it's job mostly well but before buying you need to consider some facts, I hope this review will help you to make your decision.

Focus mode is a very good feature of the product, you can monitor two independent mono sources and set a balance between them in 31 steps. But you need to know that even if you set the maximum difference (like hard panning left and right), both monitors will contain some signal of the other. Try to use with not completely different mixes.

The unit makes some hiss but in a loud environment this will be not a huge problem and there's an onboard EQ in the receiver.

The most important fact is that the earphones will cancel other band member's play if you don't listen to complete mix causing to get off from tempo.

Setting up the system is very easy and it comes with enough accessories for immediate use including earphones, batteries for receiver, rack mounting kit and antenna extender cable. The device worths it's price but I guess, price of "big" names like Sennheiser and Shure have a reason.

Pros:
price, lot of accessories, easy setup

Cons:
both channel contain other input's signal even if hard panned, some hiss if noisegate is open

We bought this for our two backing vocalists. They were skeptic about IEMs but were enthusiast after gigging with them. You can't really complaint about this unit, given it's price.

The volume control on the bodypacks only starts working at half the volume, so you don't have a large room for adjustment, but that's not a dealbreaker. The limiter is not that good, overall the price difference with more costly units like the one I use is there, but if you can't spend more or just want to try IEMs, this is perfectly fine. The headphones are decent in sound quality, but for better isolation I would raccomend to change those. Rackmount accessories and antennas are ok.

I have them since 1 month ago. I am working with a small church band (4 vocals and 4 instruments). I am currently using a system with 3 Tranceivers and 8 receivers. These are good products with good quality, very easy to configure. Especially, the FOCUS MODE is very usefull because with 1 tranceiver I can send 2 different signals and I can connect 2 instruments on it(e.g. drums and bass on same tranceiver with 2 bodypacks, on L input is the BASS+mix and on R are the DRUMS+mix, on their bodypacks they hear on both headsets their corresponding audio signal).

When the batteries are begining to drain out, a weird noise is heard in the headphones.