LEKATO UHF Wireless Guitar System with 70 Channels for Guitar Bass (Pink)

This review will cover the following: Active pickups, Tone, sustain, noise, and audio waveforms. First things first: the LEKATO WS-70 works with active pickups. I have no issues using this wireless system with my guitar equipped with Seymour Duncan Blackout Active pickups w/ an Energizer Lithium 9V battery. Second thing: there is an audible TONE difference between the WS-70 and a guitar cable. The WS-70 has less top end (tone/brightness) than my Mogami Gold instrument cable and my cheap Chinese made cable that ships with [some] guitars. This is not a bad thing at all; I actually prefer the WS-70's tone compared to my Mogami. The WS-70 sounds less shrill/ear-piercing in the treble spectrum while the Mogami does sound harsh. I suppose (educated guess) the LEKATO doesn't reproduce the higher treble frequencies the same as a cable. Overall, it sounds great in comparison with a cable; you can always adjust your preamp settings to account for any treble frequencies lost using this wireless system. Third: Sustain. There is audibly less sustain from the WS-70 in comparison to a cable; about a second less in my case. Not a big deal. Fourth: Noise. My Mogami Gold Instrument cable produces 60's cycle hum & hiss with my Hughes & Kettner Grandmeister Deluxe 40 Tube Amp. The LEKATO WS-70 does not produce 60's cycle hum at all, just hiss. It is significantly less noisy in comparison to a cable. As for the hiss, it can be removed with a noise gate. Fifth and lastly: Audio Waveforms. When recording into a DAW, the waveform of a cable is dynamic with peaks. The waveform of the WS-70 is more linear/smooth with no peaks. Is this compression? I'm not sure. Take this information with a grain of salt. Overall, the WS-70 is a great sounding system, and I would buy it again especially at its current price. Want to know about battery life, reliability and range? Check out the other reviews for that. I literally wrote this review after two hours of owning this system. O_o

Very impressed! 'sounds great. I was concerned that it didn't have an On/Off switch like other wireless devices and there were no mentions in the manual. However, LEKATO customer service responded quickly with this response: "​Hi there, Thanks for your email and support for LEKATO. The WS-70 wireless button serves as the power switch; simply long-press it to turn the device on or off. The unit will not shut down automatically unless its battery runs out. Best Regards" All's well

First, i have to say, at $40 this is a great deal. You need to buy this one. The question then becomes, which one do you want for your second wireless system? First impression is good with a few reservations... i bought the Swiff WS50 UHF and the Lakato WS70 UHF wireless systems. These products represent the two most common and well reviewed designs (WS50 and WS70) sold under many brand names on Amazon. Both designs are great choices. You can't go wrong. Both designs introduce a hiss into the sound. The hiss from the WS50 is higher pitched and louder than the hiss from the WS70 design. The output of the Ws50 is a little louder than the WS70 (which may be why the hiss is louder), but both designs are lower output than a short cable. Both designs have less high frequency roll off than happens with a cable with the tone of the WS50 being very balanced. The ws70 tone was closer to the tone of the cable. I like the tone i get with both designs for different reasons. The WS50 clear tone gives more clean tone options while the WS70 seems to break up overdrives earlier with more harmonics. Both are awesome sound options. Both designs have had about 3 drop outs in 3 hours of use. The battery life is about the same. The battery indicators on the WS50 are way better than on the WS70 which bleed into each other so it is really difficult to see how much battery is left. Both designs will do a 4 hour gig. When charging from zero battery for an hour, both designs could play for over 2 hours. Once when i had the WS70 going from guitar to pedal board and the WS50 going pedal board to amp, the sustain of the note would get choked off like a noise gate kicked in. It did not happen as much when i swapped the WS50 to the guitar and the WS70 to the amp. But the sustain using a chord was better. This would only matter when playing quiet songs with guitar volume turned down low. You don't notice it when rocking. Bottom line is that i will probably keep both and go full wire less. But, I'll always have cables at the ready. We some times play 6 hour gigs, so I'll have to do at least some of those shows wired, no pun intended :-) UPDATE: I ended up returning both of the UHF units. I really liked them and wanted them to stay, but the since I use my volume control on my guitar a lot, the gating of low signals just won't work in all situations. I ordered some 2.4Ghz systems and 5.8Ghz systems to try out and some of those don't have the gating problem and my old AKG UHF system does not have the gating problem. In those units, the signal fades away just like it does with a wire. I finally figured out that is the most important quality for my use. If you play with your guitar or bass full up all the time, you might not notice the gating issue. Apart from the gating issue, i really like these units.

Excelente producto

Figured because these are so cheap and are nice and small with no weird shaped oversized body I'd try them and like others have mentioned there's a really weird gating effect to them, this is the biggest glaring drawback to these. I don't have issues with noise and honestly everything else about these is great, the battery life is good, the connection is consistent, I watched a review were someone walked out of his 2nd floor apartment out to the parking lot with his guitar and still had a clean connection, they're nice and small so they're great for traveling, it's just the gating. I'd give these a 5/5 if not for that. I didn't notice the gating at first while practicing some pop punk adjacent riffs but when I tried to play metalcore it quickly became apparent that these would be basically unusable immediately. Especially with my baritone 7 string. It seems like the lower you tune, the worse it gets. If you play any aggressive genre with palm muting especially fast notes that are palm muted I promise you you are going to HATE these.

I was having signal interference with 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz system. The Lekato UHF system has greatly reduced the noise i was experiencing. The plugins look cool have good battery life and connect almost instantly. Old school tech for the win.

Granted thee are not your gigging type of wireless interfaces but for practice/jamming, these work great. Got $10 off too so only paid $34 shipped (they often offer coupons so check/check it off). Simpl operation (just turn both on and witin seconds they connect to each other and LEDs are solid green, otherwise they blink, trying to connect). Sounds nice, but I do think the tone is compromised slightly as well as slight compression (just how they work, like others). My only issue with them is occasionally, you will hear a small pop/crackle fro the devices... possibly interference or something (not a range thing as they are always within 10 feet from each other). Still decent way to go wireless if that is what you are looking for.

HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! That is the primary sound these things deliver. When you hit a chord, bend a note or lay down a riff, every quiet moment between sounds you intended to make, you will hear hissing. Like a rubber raft slowly deflating, or a car tire with a bad valve, the hissing is loud, disconcerting, and ultimately un-musical. Did I mention the hissing? It is ever-present, and so very disappointing. Also, they be hissing.

Un producto que satisface todas mis expectativas.

Very pleased with purchase and value. Works great, sounds great, battery lasts decently long, and charges relatively quickly. If you do not have the budget for higher end systems, this is what I would recommend.

Connectivity is good but the tone gets compressed, it didn’t change the sound but there is some kind of compression, clearly audible when plucking the notes a little harder on the bass.

Muy buena opción para tocar en vivo sin cables, el único detalle es que le quita sustain al instrumento, por lo demás, excelente

The Sound playing a note fades a litter quicker than a cord. Other than that it is good.