compressed SMACKs??? :confused:

You can hear pretty strange things when the pre is cranked up at +60dB. Once it was a clock downstairs. Just recently, I was checking out a new pair of Royers, ribbon mics, and when we stopped playing, I started to hear a thumping. Now this was at 4:00AM in a residential neighborhood. It was totally random. But we finally traced it down to the recording hard drive we were using for tracking in the next room. The clicks were being low-pass-filtered through the carpet (so they came out as thumps rather than clicks), crossing the floor though a wall, and up the mic stand fifteen feet away. How did we find it? We lifted the mic stand and the thumps stopped. Put it down, and they started again. Couldn't hear anything like that in the room. Anyway, you might want to try to look for something wacky like this.
-Dennis

Originally posted by pan:
compressed SMACKs??? :confused:

I thought I heard (and saw), a click when the singer was nowhere near the mic, although I could be imagining it - it was a long day. I'm going to leave the mic on with no-one in the room for an hour or so whilst recording to see if it re-occurs.

Does anyone think this may be an intermitent mic fault or is more likely environmental ?

-Peter

Its that fuckin piece of shit manley. you better send it to me before it does some real damage and go get yourself a joe meek