While taping a show this week I discovered that my Beyer MV-100 malfunctioned midway through the set. It started about 54 minutes into the show. The sound drops out in both channels simultaneously at least 20db, momentarily, and everything sounds really distant. It's like the phantom power circuit craps out and can't supply the full 48 volts. The music sounds distant, as if I was in the back of the hall, under a bunch of bodies. I've never had this particular problem happen before. I had a bad XLR connection on one channel once that made a similar problem, but only one channel was affected then. The sound drops, then comes back, then drops again for about two minutes, and then comes back. Really annoying. I was not happy to learn that the taping gods were NOT smiling on me in the later part of that show.
I like the MV-100 because the Neumann KM-100 amplifier bodies will click in place into the XLR inputs. I never have really
Liked the sound of the Beyer, and have just used it out of convenience. The MV-100 is the same as the Sonosax SX-M2 except the Sonosax has an adjustable discrete input stage and the Beyer does not, and has IC's instead.
Any ideas what to replace it with if it is terminal? It needs to be small and (shush!) stealthy.