I have a (very) small home studio with a Yamaha MG82cx mixer feeding my HP desktop running Audacity.
Last Christmas, my wife got me an MXL 990 condenser mike. It's performed well enough for my needs up until lately.
It still seems to work decently at low volume levels, but as input increases, it quickly saturates and starts clipping the signal.
I checked all cable connections and the cable wires themselves and found no issues. I removed the connector covers to expose the soldered connections to enable voltage readings. Without the mike attached, phantom voltage is a solid 48vdc. As soon as the mike is connected to the cable, phantom power measured at the mixer drops to 30 - 35vdc. On the chance that the phantom power in my mixer had gone bad, I connected a separate phantom power supply, with the same results.
Something is causing that mike to load down phantom power.
Is there any way to troubleshoot the mike's internals, or is the only way to salvage this mike a rebuild board?
Thanks in advance.
Last Christmas, my wife got me an MXL 990 condenser mike. It's performed well enough for my needs up until lately.
It still seems to work decently at low volume levels, but as input increases, it quickly saturates and starts clipping the signal.
I checked all cable connections and the cable wires themselves and found no issues. I removed the connector covers to expose the soldered connections to enable voltage readings. Without the mike attached, phantom voltage is a solid 48vdc. As soon as the mike is connected to the cable, phantom power measured at the mixer drops to 30 - 35vdc. On the chance that the phantom power in my mixer had gone bad, I connected a separate phantom power supply, with the same results.
Something is causing that mike to load down phantom power.
Is there any way to troubleshoot the mike's internals, or is the only way to salvage this mike a rebuild board?
Thanks in advance.