Has anyone had a mic cable go bad?

[zhianosatch]

Another thing I was thinking about, optical cables and their associated connections are notorious for adding static/pops/crackles to your signal.

I don't even think that's technically possible - it's a digital signal, so it's either there or it isn't.  Static can't just appear out of ones and zeroes. 

one of several examples to the contrary: transferring a DAT with the receiving computer's sound card's clock set to "internal" instead of "digital in"... all kinds of random shit like superfaint crackling can get tossed into what would have been a clean transfer.

[John Kelly]

Another thing I was thinking about, optical cables and their associated connections are notorious for adding static/pops/crackles to your signal.

I don't even think that's technically possible - it's a digital signal, so it's either there or it isn't.  Static can't just appear out of ones and zeroes. 

one of several examples to the contrary: transferring a DAT with the receiving computer's sound card's clock set to "internal" instead of "digital in"... all kinds of random shit like superfaint crackling can get tossed into what would have been a clean transfer.

Sounds like a problem with the soundcard processing the data, not with the optical cable.

[zhianosatch]

Another thing I was thinking about, optical cables and their associated connections are notorious for adding static/pops/crackles to your signal.

I don't even think that's technically possible - it's a digital signal, so it's either there or it isn't.  Static can't just appear out of ones and zeroes. 

one of several examples to the contrary: transferring a DAT with the receiving computer's sound card's clock set to "internal" instead of "digital in"... all kinds of random shit like superfaint crackling can get tossed into what would have been a clean transfer.

Sounds like a problem with the soundcard processing the data, not with the optical cable.

sorry, i was replying to the static appearing out of ones and zeroes part.

[vishwa]

i thought i had a bad cable too

turns out my mic cap (studio projects C-4) was not on all the way

glad I didn't rush out to replace the cable

[Nick's Picks]

Another thing I was thinking about, optical cables and their associated connections are notorious for adding static/pops/crackles to your signal.

I don't even think that's technically possible - it's a digital signal, so it's either there or it isn't.  Static can't just appear out of ones and zeroes. 

oh?
so how does it happen on all those DAT tapes that i've hard digi-noise on? 
bad mechanics, bad connections...it all turns to static, or loss of signal