My First Mic Cable to Go Bad in Years

All of a sudden on my local recording of my mic I heard some scratching sounds, mini pops and clicks, intermittent noise…

Luckily this happened when I was testing some new settings on my channel strip, NOT when recording an episode. Whew!

So I started to troubleshoot where this noise was coming from. It’s the first time I had to troubleshoot something like this in a LONG time, so it was kinda fun (mostly because I was under NO pressure to quickly solve the problem). I started unplugging things, replacing things, ground-lifting gear, circumventing gear, trying different mic’s, etc.

It ended up being my mic cable – a Mogami cable that I have running through my Heil boom arm.

So, temporarily I have another cable connected to my mic, but not running through the Heil boom arm because I have to disassemble the boom arm to get the old cable out and the new cable in.

What I may do is take this opportunity to upgrade to the O.C. White boom arm that I have my eye on 😉

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