Hi all:
I bought a used Bluebird mic (as is, of course) and lo and behold, it has issues. Hoping someone may have experienced this on a mic before and can lead me to a solution.
The mic is fine for about a minute or 90 seconds when you switch on the phantom power. Then all of a sudden it's like you walked 10 yards away from the mic. It still outputs a bit of signal, but it is like 1/10th of the signal. The only way to bring it back to life is to completely unplug the mic and re-plug the cable back in. Just turning Phantom power off and back on will not work.
I also tested various other cables and pres and it does it every time (but they all work fine with my other two mics), so I've ruled out all the other equipment.
I took the shell off and it doesn't seem as there are any loose wires, but there are two circuit-board looking things on each side of the mic and I didn't have a small enough screwdriver to get those off last night. I'll go get one after work today so I can remove those to have a closer look at the connections.
I also wanted to take off the XLR jack to look for loose connections, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it off. There is a small screw on it, but it only unscrews to a certain point, then stops and I don't want to strip it. I'm still using google to see if I can fine more info on taking it all apart.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas (besides "throw the mic away"!) I'd love to hear them.
Thanks,
John
I bought a used Bluebird mic (as is, of course) and lo and behold, it has issues. Hoping someone may have experienced this on a mic before and can lead me to a solution.
The mic is fine for about a minute or 90 seconds when you switch on the phantom power. Then all of a sudden it's like you walked 10 yards away from the mic. It still outputs a bit of signal, but it is like 1/10th of the signal. The only way to bring it back to life is to completely unplug the mic and re-plug the cable back in. Just turning Phantom power off and back on will not work.
I also tested various other cables and pres and it does it every time (but they all work fine with my other two mics), so I've ruled out all the other equipment.
I took the shell off and it doesn't seem as there are any loose wires, but there are two circuit-board looking things on each side of the mic and I didn't have a small enough screwdriver to get those off last night. I'll go get one after work today so I can remove those to have a closer look at the connections.
I also wanted to take off the XLR jack to look for loose connections, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it off. There is a small screw on it, but it only unscrews to a certain point, then stops and I don't want to strip it. I'm still using google to see if I can fine more info on taking it all apart.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas (besides "throw the mic away"!) I'd love to hear them.
Thanks,
John