Is my microphone broken?

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Immanuel
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Location: Aalborg, Denmark

Post by Immanuel »

I have this problem with my recording rig.
I never had my outboard gear work realy well.
I had loads of problems with a Behringer Ultragain preamp (or was it that?).
The problem was too little gain.
I could not replicate the problems at the shop!
I now have a DBX MiniPre.
I found one strange behaviour.
When I pluck* in my AKG eb535c microphone, and then turn on the phantom, I have plenty of gain.
But then after a while I need to crank up the gain on my MiniPre from 9 o'clock position to 4 o'clock position to get the same amount of gain (making the led clip).
Is it in fact my microphone, that is broke - or is this normal on an electred condenser microphone?

Immanuel

* LOL, made my laugh, when I read my post :grin: - too funny to delete
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jupiter8
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Location: Sweden lives in Norway

Post by jupiter8 »

I have the same microphone.
Had it for years.
And it never does that.
It's probably broke.
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Ricardo
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Location: Just an Englishman in Oz

Post by Ricardo »

It's definitely broken. It's not holding capacitance
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