Hey,
Our C414 has recently started making some weird noise, I'm not sure where to start looking for the source of it. The mic didn't function well for years, until last year my dad replaced most of the capacitors and we bought a capsule from Tim Campbell, and it is our go-to mic for a lot of stuff in our studio, especially on drums overheads and percussion, acoustic guitars and bass cabs. I always put the mic so that I know that the drummer won't hit it, though we did open the mic up and saw that the capsule is a bit dirty (my guess is wood chips from the drum sticks). We tried to replace the capsule with capacitors as Tim suggested in one of the other topics in here, and the noise was quieter, but was not gone completly, so I'm not sure if it really tells us that the capsule is bad. There is noise on all pickup patterns, and it doesn't seem to matter when I play with the switches so my guess here that the switches are fine.
Another thing, it is very hard to check which part causes the noises because the mic is making a lot of noise when it is open!
Here is a clip of the noise we are having, if it helps. Do notice that the gain on the preamp was pretty high so it really picks up the room too, and there is a loud noise somewhere in the middle that I'm pretty sure is not related to the mic.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByyLGJW4qi4eU1pVc3VRLWNmZTg/view?usp=sharing
Thank you
Our C414 has recently started making some weird noise, I'm not sure where to start looking for the source of it. The mic didn't function well for years, until last year my dad replaced most of the capacitors and we bought a capsule from Tim Campbell, and it is our go-to mic for a lot of stuff in our studio, especially on drums overheads and percussion, acoustic guitars and bass cabs. I always put the mic so that I know that the drummer won't hit it, though we did open the mic up and saw that the capsule is a bit dirty (my guess is wood chips from the drum sticks). We tried to replace the capsule with capacitors as Tim suggested in one of the other topics in here, and the noise was quieter, but was not gone completly, so I'm not sure if it really tells us that the capsule is bad. There is noise on all pickup patterns, and it doesn't seem to matter when I play with the switches so my guess here that the switches are fine.
Another thing, it is very hard to check which part causes the noises because the mic is making a lot of noise when it is open!
Here is a clip of the noise we are having, if it helps. Do notice that the gain on the preamp was pretty high so it really picks up the room too, and there is a loud noise somewhere in the middle that I'm pretty sure is not related to the mic.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByyLGJW4qi4eU1pVc3VRLWNmZTg/view?usp=sharing
Thank you