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Jamie t wrote:
The only think I can think of is a bad ceramic element in the
2 wired condenser mic.

Do those things go bad by producing poor/low quality audio ?

If it's an electret, yes. They loose their charge over time. With early
pro personal mics of this type I used to change the part after perhaps 5
years or so.

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