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Sep 24, 2017

Are there any special steps taken to get these to work? I bought two and neither of them are making any kind of sound. I pick up some interference when plugging in the cable by itself but adding on the Microphone has no effect. I'm plugging them straight into a mixing console I use for my two condenser mics that use Phantom power so I know the source is working as intended. I tried using a different mini stereo cable and it produced more interference but still the mic itself makes no noise whatsoever. I tested the sound port with a piano and a dynamic mic and they work great. These minimic have zero output even with the gain cranked. This is true for both mics.

PigmonkeY

1082

Sep 24, 2017

X-90I was going to ask if you had slid the mute switch all the way to one side, but I see that you've already tried completely eliminating that cable =/
Mine came with the mute switch jammed in the middle of the capsule.

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ljbell97

Sep 24, 2017

X-90Make sure the replacement cables you're trying to use have contact points in the exact same spots that the Minimic cable does. When you tried them with the stock cable did you check the volume slider?

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X-90

Sep 25, 2017

PigmonkeYMine slid around pretty easy but I when I looked on this discussion board some people said theirs were stucks. I wondered if mine outright didn't work so that's why I switched to a different 3.5mm cable in case that switch had completely failed.

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X-90

Sep 25, 2017

ljbell97I checked and they seem to be standard TRS contact lengths as far as my eye can tell. When I used the stock cable I plugged it in and waved the slider around. I also reversed the cable and still no effect. I did some further testing and found that the volume 'Slider" isn't really a slider. I plugged them into my headphones and the cable works fine for any sort of headphone with a female 1/8" stereo jack. The volume slider doesn't dim the output at all - just shuts it off or turns it on. Now I'm down to the mic itself; The mic just doesn't work. Both of them.

PigmonkeY

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Sep 25, 2017

X-90it's not intended to be a volume slider in the first place, it's a mute. they just decided not to give it detent, for some reason.

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Beefnoodle

Sep 25, 2017

PigmonkeYMy slider's plastic piece falls off easily......

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danisaacs

Sep 26, 2017

PigmonkeYWhich way is mute? Tried it both ways, and not getting any audio into PC. Other mics work fine.

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Exline

Sep 27, 2017

X-90I'm having the exact same issue. Doesn't seem to be an issue with the slider at all - just no sound being picked up.
Is it perhaps a driver issue? I actually came across this thread googling to see if I could find a driver to install, though I would assume this would just be PnP.

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X-90

Sep 27, 2017

ExlineShouldn't require a driver since it's an analog device. You should be able to plug it into any input on your computer. On a desktop that's usually the back or front. On laptops nowadays they combine the headphone jack from what used to be 2 3.5mm jacks into a combined port for TRRS connectors so the mic wouldn't work natively in that port (usually). In that case you'd have to find a TRRS splitter of a certain kind depending on which pinout it uses (Apple pinout Vs. everybody else)
Danisaacs: For me the slider switch was slide toward the long end of the cable to enable and slide toward the short end of the cable to disable. There is a tiny emboss on the switch that say MAX and MIN but really it should say on and off.

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Exline

Sep 27, 2017

X-90I eventually tried plugging it in through the front ports instead of the rear and going into sounds -> recording -> show disabled devices (they weren't shown by default) and selecting to enable realtek audio, which I assume is the frontside port.

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MechLon

Sep 27, 2017

X-90Mine had terrible interference. I tried a thicker cable, used for connecting headphones, thinking it was an issue with the thin cable. The mic did not work at all with a regular TRS cable.. And appareantly the static isn't too bad on discord

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PigmonkeY

1082

Sep 27, 2017

MechLonno interference here. Not sure if that's a result of a defect in your mic, or that i'm running via external sound card, so everything is decoupled from PC noise.

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MechLon

Sep 27, 2017

PigmonkeYholding my phone in my hand while holding the mic caused a loud humming. so did my phone charging on my desk (me not touching anything, mic attached to my headphones), and my desk lamp power supply which lies on the floor. and probably my monitors, too. the cable is just too thing to be shielded..

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