If using them wirelessly in a situation where your signal chain includes side tone (one's own voice in the mix), would the single-digit millisecond latency be perceptible or distracting for some users?
ASKED BY · Brody Hefner · NEW YORK CITY · 23 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:47:32
At 5.8 milliseconds, the latency is below the 10 millisecond audibility threshold; direct monitoring provides real-time listening with no latency.
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47:31What have people said to you before, Brian? How much does this bother anybody or not? So as I said earlier, I think 10 seconds is kind of generally recognized as like the threshold of, you know, audibility where you can start to kind of hear. I think you said 10 seconds. You're talking 10 milliseconds, right? Yeah. 10 milliseconds. Because 10 seconds is really confusing.
47:55You might be able to hear that. That might be distracting. I only say that because I used to be the stadium announcer in the Coliseum in Phoenix. And that was about a second and a half. And it almost drove me insane. Oh, yeah. That would be very challenging. But 10 milliseconds is kind of that threshold where it starts to become a little bit more
48:19audible, potentially distracting when it gets above that. So these are at 5.8 milliseconds. So one thing that you'll have to keep in mind is what else is in your chain. What are your settings in your DAW, particularly if you're monitoring like virtual amp simulators or software instruments. So you'll have to manage latency that way. Typically, in a lot of recording applications, like if I'm recording my voice, I'm almost always using direct monitoring, which is real time.
48:50So it's not adding any latency that way. Nice. Next question. Douglas Carmichael is back with us. What adapters are included with the LW6 package? Oh, yeah. You mentioned that there were some extras tossed in there. Yeah, so you get two kind of 3.5 millimeter audio cables of different lengths, an extra long one and a shorter one. And you also get the adapters to the quarter inch size with both cables.