Pants in Motion

This morning Crumpet had a cry.

It’s something she does on days when she’s stressed and something minor happens to tip her over the edge. In this instance, she was trying to record an audio comment for a podcast she was listening to, but she wasn’t getting any output from the microphone. All she could hear was noise.

This noise was characteristic of the sound you hear with a modern mic preamp circuit when phantom power (a 48V charge that allows high-quality studio microphones to work) is engaged without a microphone attached. Except that there clearly was a mic attached, which suggested a problem with the lead. I wiggled the lead. Horrible noises ensued. We had a dead lead.

So today I made a special trip to Manny’s and bought a nice 10-foot high quality microphone cable just for Crumpet to use for podcasting. Dry those tears, sweety.