Sennheiser PC37X randomly goes bad after disconnecting the cable ?
Greetings, Yesterday I was using my headset like normal with my macbook, just listening to music and on a call with people like usual, and the headset was perfectly fine. The stock wire that came with the headset is extremely long and yesterday it annoyed me very much that it kept getting tangled with itself, so I decided to see if the cable is replaceable. I pulled out the cable from the headset and saw the adapter, and looked online for a replacement. Upon plugging it back in, the audio sounded extremely muffled and washed out. Im not sure what I did wrong to make it mess up like that as I've always taken good care of it, ive had it for about 2 years and its always just been chilling on my desk, but anywho I thought the cable just went bad and ordered a replacement. The replacement came, and the issue is still persistant, so I am not sure what the issue is I've tried multiple different headsets and the issue is not with the port, and I also tried it with my windows laptop and...
Apr 23, 2024
Anyone considering buying this microphone should really do some homework the Shure microphones are not much more and are legendary status for a reason, skip to 7:46 if you want to hear the SM57:
And yes the *Shure* SM57 or 58, not Sennheiser... (smacking my forehead)
http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/studio-microphone-buying-guide/
I never said that condenser microphones were bad, I was simply stating that if you wanted this microphone for vocals you're better off paying $10 more and getting an SM57 or SM58. For the complete novice who wants to join this drop on MD thinking it's a good buy for vocals, they will be misled by MD's marketing. For vocals go with dynamic and for instruments this microphone is fine.
Premature band-pass when recording? Hahah... funny stuff. So instead of hi-passing all your non-bass sources with a simple flip of a switch on the mic, you would rather waste your valuable "professional" time doing those "detailed" adjustments to a bunch of tracks while mixing?
Let me ask you a question: Why do you think that high pass switch is there on the mic? It's there so that audio professionals can flip a switch and save some valuable time by not having to do that to a ton of tracks in post production, because the pros need to get things done quickly. High-passing is not a subtle or detailed adjustment, you just chop off the low frequencies so that you don't have a bunch of other low frequency garbage clouding up the mix that does not pertain to the source on the track. Not to mention the possibility of forgetting which tracks you have hi-passed (among say maybe 30 or so) and missing one, then wasting time going back to sort out which track has the low end garbage (refrigerator or air conditioner hum or bleed from other instruments) thats messing up the low end of your mix. The switch helps.
The things you say might sound good enough to bamboozle folks who don't know a lot about mics or how they are best used. But it doesn't fool me. And I am NOT an audio professional. There are not many people making living in the recording industry today because it DIED a few years back (save for kiddie-pop), so you must be some kind of audio god or something if you survived. Also technology today has enabled musicians to record on their own at home with near pro level equipment (if not professional recording spaces), without time constraints imposed by paying for very expensive studio time. I find it very hard to believe any client pays you thousands of dollars to record them with $90 mics they could easily afford themselves on Massdrop. If I were to walk into a real studio to pay someone for recording time, you better have a bunch of Nuemanns and AKGs and Telefunkins and badass mic pres and other equipment I could never afford, or you can forget it.
And if I was a professional audio engineer, I would not come to Massdrop and call myself "Audiopro." Instead, if I were on this site at all, (not likely if I was a busy audio engineer with access to a professional studio with pro level equipment) but if I was hanging out here for some reason, I would just quietly try to help people out, without needing to try to establish myself as an authority, or make a pretense of my knowledge with a narcissistic user name like Audiopro.
Do you use the same name on any real audio forums? Because using a name like that on a serious audio board where real professionals hang out would be inviting them to eat you for breakfast, which they would do in very short order. But somehow I don't think so. That's more like the kind of user name intended to con people who are probably just buying their very first mic, into trusting your opinion, for the purpose of selling $90 microphones with fancy gold mesh. Perhaps that is what you mean by calling yourself an audio pro.
Great story Audiopro.