RE: Need help to save money :)
2005/06/01 00:46:40
(permalink)
Athos
i totally know what you're talking about. this happens a little with my amp (a crappy 15w practice amp, not a mic, but nevertheless, the same issue)
here is a far-fetched and pretty unattractive solution offered by an sound engineer friend about 6 months ago; it didn't work for me (but I really didn't explore it too much), but it may work for for you.
he said take a fair amount of tinfoil and start covering different sections of the amp. start with sections the cord (power and patch) or the whole cord (easier if you bunch up the cords and cover the entire thing rather then have it stretched out), then cover the knobs, then the open back, etc. i suppose you could give it a shot with different sections of the XLR cord and maybe base of the mic, etc.
like i said, it did not work for me, but i only ended up covering like a small section at the base of the power cord and got side-tracked and never returned to the task. the radio sound that comes through is very slight and since I don't use this amp for recording - just for odd things here and there - it's no big deal. this guy swears it worked for a similar issue in his home studio, never saw it 1st-hand and didn't do it myself so I can't vouch for its effectiveness, but certainly stranger things have happened
peace