Microphone Isolation Audio Tests - Check that Cable! Basic Filmmaker Ep 232

Video uploaded a YEAR ago and not published. Tests using mic, foam, and blimp. Thing learned (see very end of the video and description) is a cable electrical short can be REALLY subtle.

How do I "forget" to publish a video? I didn't want someone thinking they would use the configuration I am showing for doing audio, as between the Rode NTG-3, the blimp and the Zoom H6 you're looking at over $1000, and you wouldn't really use a blimp like this.

Regardless, I thought this might assist someone with mysterious audio problems. I had very subtle audio changes in my setup. I thought when a cable went bad it would, well, go bad. Not so. This XLR cable went bad and simply cut the input signal by about 3-6dB.

After playing around with a lot of other things trying to isolate what was happening, I stumbled upon the cable shorting out, as you'll see at the very end of the video.

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