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Thanks for your continued help. :D @Steenamaroo ‒ I'll try to keep your phantom power warning in mind, but I don't think I'll connect the mic to an XLR socket any time soon. (For one, I'd feel a bit out of place connecting a 3.5mm jack into an XLR adapter. That just makes me feel uncomfortable...

Hey again, Paul. :D I'll be using a 3.5mm Hands Free Computer Clip on Mini Lapel Microphone by Neewar. I suppose I can go as high as an extremely exuberant $10, but any higher may not be worth it. (Up to $20 might be okay, but that's the max.) If it is cheaper to actually build an amp or hack...

Hi all! In keeping with my newbie status, I'm trying to do something somewhat dumb, but necessary. :D I need to broadcast a feed from an unpowered, unbalanced microphone via an FM transmitter (one of those devices that you plug into your MP3 player in the car to hear your music over the...

I am not sure what you mean by that. LOL. Despite my rather beginner-level electrical experience, I'm still fresh with the terminology. I don't really understand things like "transformer isolated" and "phantom power". Care to explain what that means in terms of electrical flow and why it may...

Thanks again, Paul. Yeah, that is what I thought, but I just didn't want to ruin the mic module. I do, however, have one more bit of information that I somehow failed to see (and therefore mention here). The microphone is labeled as a CT329 IMPEDANCE 600Ω. It came with an old 486 computer waay...

Thanks Paul. But that's about $29+delivery above of my range. :D Nevertheless, I would love to have a good prosumer mic. I'm in the midst of planning how to webcast a wedding, and the standard handycam mic's don't seem to cut it. I've mostly ended up resorting to lavalier mics that I'm going...

Thanks Seidy, kip4, and PRHunt! I tried another continuity test, and I am fairly certain that I have isolated the problem to the shield inside the cable. (The resistance in the sheild registers as infinite from one end to the other. :D) In terms of making a new cable, I may well do that if I...

Just did a continuity test and found that the sheath is actually ripped somewhere in the cable. :facepalm: Now just to find out where that is. Short of X-Raying the cable, I have no idea how to do this. :sigh: ‒amanisdude ____________________

Welp, I tried both configurations (red-yellow, sheath-white and red-white, sheath-yellow) with no luck. I assume this means that either the microphone module itself is messed up, or that there is a break in the wire. Any other ideas I should try before I give up or end up doing something...

Hey Paul. Here are the pictures of the switch you requested. I tried to get as close as possible without losing focus, so I hope they're clear enough. Basically, the yellow wire is soldered to a solder bridge over two of the pins, and the white one is soldered only to one pin. Hope it helps...

Alright. My novice electrical engineering experience precedes me. I think I know how it's supposed to be soldered. I think that the signal wire in the cord (the red one) gets connected to the microphone's signal wire (either the yellow or white), and the grounding sheath wire gets connected to...

Haha, it is totally worth fixing. Short of shelling out some big $ (which I don't have much of at the moment), it's the best microphone I have. :D Here are some pix that might clarify things. This is the actual microphone inside the mic chassis along with the SPDT on/off switch. A close-up...

Hi guys! I have either an incredibly dumb or an extraordinarily sophisticated question for this forum. (You can decide which it is. :D) I have a dynamic mic that came with an old computer that connects via a mono 3.5mm TS plug. The microphone had a bad cable, so I decided to take it apart and...