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jclark5093
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So I don't know where this should be posted, but I'm, while talented, uneducated and so I'm a newb. Kind of.
Anyway, one day, at sound check, my sm57 just didn't light up. No snap crackle or pop, no buzz no nothing. Just nothing.
The engineer asked if it was turned on. He saw it was a 57. But enough about him, what's the deal with my mic?
I talked to Shure and they said $55 gets me a new one off the line, no retail pkging 1 year service warranty. So I'm trying to fix it myself because it's either fix it or have no mic (for a while).
Not dropped, not abused, not left out in the rain.
I opened it up (took a minute to figure out how) and found two tiny tiny bare coppers coming from the head down to the leads on the sides that run to the yellow and green wires. They were taped over with yellow, but the exposed part between the tape and the bracket they were *wrapped around* are severed.
I'm sure these things all have names, but I don't know what they are.
I have a picture, but not sure how to get it in here.
Bottom line - this is a simple mechanical failure, but the wires are so small I don't know how to repair it - if I use a larger gauge wiring the impedance will be affected, right? This shouldn't be so hard... (and shouldn't have happened in the first place!!!)
Help! Thanks!!
Anyway, one day, at sound check, my sm57 just didn't light up. No snap crackle or pop, no buzz no nothing. Just nothing.
The engineer asked if it was turned on. He saw it was a 57. But enough about him, what's the deal with my mic?
I talked to Shure and they said $55 gets me a new one off the line, no retail pkging 1 year service warranty. So I'm trying to fix it myself because it's either fix it or have no mic (for a while).
Not dropped, not abused, not left out in the rain.
I opened it up (took a minute to figure out how) and found two tiny tiny bare coppers coming from the head down to the leads on the sides that run to the yellow and green wires. They were taped over with yellow, but the exposed part between the tape and the bracket they were *wrapped around* are severed.
I'm sure these things all have names, but I don't know what they are.
I have a picture, but not sure how to get it in here.
Bottom line - this is a simple mechanical failure, but the wires are so small I don't know how to repair it - if I use a larger gauge wiring the impedance will be affected, right? This shouldn't be so hard... (and shouldn't have happened in the first place!!!)
Help! Thanks!!
