The actual system works well, but they have used the worlds cheapest materials. The female XLR immediately wants to break off and the faceplate is held on with plastic rivets that you can pull off with your fingernails. I am now trying to figure out how to glue this onto an SM58 so it won't snap off.

I’ve been using the PB-05M for roughly 8 years on the road mixing monitors, and I won’t mix a show without it. While in the middle of a show, one less button I need to press to talk to my band or crew mates, the better for critical communication. The ability to throw it in the smallest pocket of my backpack means I don’t ever forget to leave home without it.

Don’t let your drummer have a talkback unless you have this tool. Nobody wants the extra bleed from the drums. In the worship band setting, we have multiple talkbacks on stage and in production. The optogate keeps our inear mixes clean by keeping bleed out of all of our talkback mics and it’s been the best investment. Your band will thank you!

Has helped take our in ear talk back mic bleed completely out!! Works great!! Truly glad we purchased them!!

I’ve actually been wanting to buy this for some time but the one deterrent was how long it was going to take to come standard shipping. Since I really wanted the product and had need for it for an event, I went ahead and did an expedited option. I paid for 2 day air and it doesn’t really mean you’ll get it in 2 days— and for 30 extra dollars, that was disappointing.

We have 11 musicians on stage. Separation in the mix is essential. We have four Optogates that really clean drum bleed and spaces between vocal lines. Very happy with them. They solve uniquely different issues in small venues and large theaters alike. In addition to FOH, the ear mixes stay tight and less fatiguing. Indispensable part of my kit.

This product is awesome and the customer service is great. Right after ordering Joe messaged me explaining what each optogate does, and asked my needs for it and made sure i ordered the right one. Thank you Joe you're great.

Really great product does exactly what it’s supposed to do and I love it

I tour mixing for a very dynamic rock/prog/jam band who plays in a variety of venues; sometimes we’re on a big stage outdoors in front of 2000 people, sometimes we’re crammed in a little 250 cap room. My bass guitar vocal lives directly next to our drum kit, with a ton of bleed coming from the cymbals, even when using a hyper or super cardioid vocal mic. It was often an issue that the cymbals would sound super washy/weird/phasey and I’d ultimately have to pull down the fader my super nice/detailed overheads, or conversely I’d pull the bass vocal down during an instrumental section, and then be super late to bring it back up when he talked or sang. Enter the Optogate PB-05D, which ducks the vocal just enough to clear up the wash and weirdness when he’s not on it, and opens right up (with a little work via the distance adjustment) when he’s ready to talk or sing. My shows sound better, I look like more of a professional, and he’s happy because he’s not getting the bleed in his IEMs. All around a winner of a product, especially for my touring situation.

I’ve been playing live with bleed from my vocal mic in my monitor mix for years. I learned to deal with it as nothing really could be done…. Until I found out about the Optogate! It completely killed the Bleed from my Mic and for the first time I could hear the mix I wanted! Thank you Optogate for saving my mix and killin the bleed!

Also my Front of house engineer loves it as well because it kills the bleed for him too! Not only did it clean up my monitor mix, it also cleaned up the house mix!