Pawn Takes Pawn

Was rummaging through the garage
last night and came across a couple
microphones that i had deemed broken.
So i pulled em apart to fix em up.

Two of them were these radio shack
drum mics i bought a few years back.
I used them live, and they sounded ok.
They come with drum clips to mount them
right on the drums. this worked great
in a live setting, but ive read you
shouldnt use these mounts for studio
work. i guess they transmit noise right
to the mic, which makes sense.

But fixin them up was easy. I took
the cap off and noticed a lead wasnt
connecting. I tested it by pushing them
together while plugged into my mixer,
and sure enough "hey, hey, hey" was comin
through the speakers. so a little solder
and we were good to go. I did notice that
after soldering one back to health, i
screwed on the cap again and it sliced
right through the wire! i think thats why
they stopped working in the first place..

Another mic was an old crappy mic. it has
an on/off switch. i pulled the whole thing
apart and noticed everything was wired,
there werent any lose connections. so i tried
cliping out the on off switch and re-wiring the
wires back together, which provided signal.
sweet! put the whole thing back together.

the last mic was an old sm 58. it was already
working, i just needed to rescrew the plug back
into place so when you unplug the mic it wont pull
the guts out.

4 more mics repaired. i think i officaly have a
mic closet.