Hi everyone,
A few months back, I tried a few of different wireless sender/receivers for the guitar so I could play without a cable.
I sent them back as most added quite a bit of extra noise or coloured the sound of the signal quite a bit, or seemed subject to quite a bit of interference. The worst by far were Harley Benton.
I gave up looking for a good device until I saw a review of the Xvive A58 units. Just got them a couple of days ago. I play my Roland Blues Cube Hot amp on the 5W setting in a small bedroom and I can only hear some extra hissing in the signal if I turn the master volume right up to full. Even with some added overdrive they remain quiet. They also don’t seem to colour the sound much at all.
I can’t compare them directly with the other brands i tried as I sent them back, but I’m really happy with these.
Claimed battery life is 4 hours. I have not yet been able to test that, but as long as they last a couple of hours that will be good enough for me.
I do not play live and I play on my own so I have no idea whether they would be suitable for more than bedroom use.
So, as long as the battery life is good, I’ll be cable-less from now on.
Best, Ian
P.s. I have no affiliations to this brand or any other but thought this might be helpful to others
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I think I had a pair of these and they were good although in the end the battery life became a problem as it degraded over time. I wouldn’t say this is specific to these devices, it’s just an inevitability of any device that only has a few hours of battery life even when brand new
My current wireless device of choice is made by Blackstar. It works well but again I’m underwhelmed by the battery. I bought these because they claimed 9 hours but in truth it’s never been close to that. It’s not that I’m ever likely to play for 9 hours continuously but I shouldn’t have to think about charging after every time I use them. Even with this said I’ll never go back to using a cable!
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Matt
Interestingly in these units, you can access the battery compartment and the batteries are changeable - which is not the case for most of these devices that have a rechargeable battery. I haven’t looked at the battery and I don’t know how easy it would be to find a replacement.
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That is interesting, I assumed they were all sealed. If it’s some sort of generic battery you could potentially cycle a few of them
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I treated myself to the positive grid set. Not cheap but really enjoying using them, zero complaints at all. Well a nice free protective case would of been good.
Never tried a wireless…curious, how do they work with pedals? 
Well, worked well with my pod express. But nothing else to try with
I only have 1 pedal (a Boss Blues Driver BD2) and my receiver is plugged into the pedal, which is connected by a cable to the amp. Works fine with that, but I don’t have a long signal chain involving lots of different effects.
Just plug it into the first pedal in the chain like you would your existing cable. Never caused me a problem
Makes sense ……i thought maybe by some voodoo magic you could get rid of all the cables 
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I suppose technically you could do it if you are wealthy with multiple wireless kits as long you had a system with enough channels that they didn’t all clash with each other!
You’d need 1 from guitar to first pedal, 1 from last pedal to amp and then 1 foot between each pair of pedals, so a board with 5 pedals would need 6 pairs of wireless units to go cable free - I’ll bet there’s someone who has done it!
On a practical note I suppose I could see a scenario where you replace the cable from guitar to the first pedal, and from last pedal to the amp but use patch cables between the pedals. If you combined this with a rechargeable power brick for your pedals then you could move your pedal board wherever you wanted without worrying about the cables