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Hotwinterdays

Jun 4, 2018

Can anyone for the love of god recommend a replacement cable variety that works? I have purchased 4 different stereo 3.5mm cables with no results, the microphones original cable and the new ones are identical in terms of its poles on the connectors. What am I missing?! Is my mic broken? Is the cable proprietary?
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!

user73

339

Jun 6, 2018

HotwinterdaysConsider getting a cheap multimeter: http://a.co/5L1asBL It's a great tool for troubleshooting your electronics, and can help keep you from trying to make half a dozen good cables work with a broken mic. Must-have :)

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Hotwinterdays

Jun 6, 2018

user73I see what you're getting at but the mic works fine with the included cable. I'll take your multimeter idea though and use it to determine what shenanigans these people committed.

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user73

339

Jun 7, 2018

HotwinterdaysPlease do! I'd certainly like to know. More than once I've come close to purchasing this mic, and each time I'm reminded by the comments that it's a gamble purchase. :\ But I keep coming back, hoping to see the grief and rage replaced by praise attestations of "Holy shit y'all! They fixed the problems and it's totally worth buying now!" Alas. I'm only $25 and 3 days of shipping away from being in exactly your position, so you have my sympathy friend.

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Brosefstalin42

260

Jun 17, 2018

HotwinterdaysSomeone with a multimeter said the 3.5mm tip and ring are bridged with the sleeve being the ground. I assume most cables don't bridge the tip and ring. So if you can find a cable with tip and ring bridged or bridge it yourself, see if that works.

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JAm19

Jun 25, 2018

HotwinterdaysYeah it is proprietary. Gawd if you couldn't find it anywhere; ITS PROPRIETARY. Did you happen to actually look at the cable? There is a volume feed control integrated; thus your problem. Try to think a bit about it before complaining.

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Hotwinterdays

Jun 25, 2018

JAm19Thanks for flaunting your ignorance in the most useless and condescending way possible. Sorry to tell you that a volume control doesn't indicate that it is proprietary, it indicates that there is a in-line regulator, like a potentiometer. Any stereo cable can be made this way, what they did do is bridge the ground, and the only way to find this out is with a multimeter.
This company went out of their way to make this product less functional while at the same time claiming: "..one of the main gripes about modular microphones is having to replace the entire microphone if the cable breaks or fails. Not the case with Massdrop Minimic. If you ever break the detachable cable, all you need to do is pop in a new one and it’s as good as new."
Pop in a new one, from where? No where, because Massdrop doesn't even sell accessories for this product and they went out of their way to make a stereo connection proprietary.
Try to think a bit before blindly defending. Maybe try to actually be helpful instead of a useless fanboy?

Hotwinterdays

Jun 25, 2018

user73Don't buy it, just get something better. The cable and mic have a bridged ground which is impossible to find in a normal third-party/aftermarket cable. Massdrop made a proprietary cable and product but does NOT even bother selling the accessories to support their claims of replaceable cables; "..one of the main gripes about modular microphones is having to replace the entire microphone if the cable breaks or fails. Not the case with Massdrop Minimic. If you ever break the detachable cable, all you need to do is pop in a new one and it’s as good as new."

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