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Microphone sounds terrible, clears up when I touch the case

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Polishwonder74

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Can you fellas think of a reason why my microphone sounds God-awful unless I touch some exposed metal on my case? I live in an old house (1940's), and I don't think there is an actual ground wire in the outlet that my computer is plugged into. I'm getting sorta worried about this 'cause I had to replace a power supply a couple of weeks after I moved in this summer. It was a nice Antec Truepower PSU, too (not the type you'd think would choke & die after about 1 year).

The motherboard is an A7N8X, using the onboard sound. I'm also thinking it could be a problem with my microphone 'cause I'm using the crappy old one that came free with my Soundblaster Live back in 1999. When I speak into it, it just sounds like a bunch of messy bass and I'm completely unintelligible. What I've been doing is connecting a static wrist strap from myself to the case so that people can understand me.

Has anyone else ever seen anything like this before?

Thanks for reading!

:beer:
 
Poor grounding of the case maybe ... more likely a poor connection in the mic wiring to the mobo. The static strap idea is good; since (usually) they are fused so that you don't get fried if the alligator clip slip and hits the high voltage; or you grab a water pipe. I assume your PS is not properly grounded if the outlet has no ground wire.
 
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