Fix My Switch

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I have an old Shure mic whose switch has always been unreliable. Now it seems totally broken. The switch has three positions - low & high impedance, and off - and in all of them the mic produces a loud buzzy sound (I can still hear my voice through it though). If I put the switch at a point between the three positions, so nothing is selected, the buzzing goes away. So it's definitely the switch at fault, am I right? Also, the buzzing gets a lot louder if I touch any part of the mic.

Does this sound like some kind of common problem that I may be able to fix myself? I've been prodding randomly at the insides with no success.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

go to radio shack or similar and get a replacement switch of a similar type. desolder the old switch and resolder a new one in place.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, I need to do soldering? How much would it cost to pay someone else to do it?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

A billion pounds.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 29 June 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

mics with switches on give me the fear

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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