{"id":9349,"date":"2016-06-11T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2016-06-13T09:45:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:45:28","slug":"confused-by-background-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/confused-by-background-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"confused by background radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really weird thing is happening with the crystal mic. I do NOT understand this.<\/p>\n<p>The same circuit board taken from another box and put in this box is <em>much<\/em> noisier. Like, 15-20db noiser. Both boxes are metal or metal-lined, and I&#8217;ve checked &#8211; repeatedly -the metal lining on this one <em>is<\/eM> grounding.<\/p>\n<p>This is true even with no crystal element attached.<\/p>\n<p>Also, any board put in this box is <em>quieter<\/em> &#8211; less signal. This makes <Em>even less sense<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so confused.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/collection-microphone-buildout-projects\/\">This is part of a collection of posts on building microphones and microphone-related kit, such as mic pre-amps<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really weird thing is happening with the crystal mic. I do NOT understand this. The same circuit board taken from another box and put in this box is much noisier. Like, 15-20db noiser. Both boxes are metal or metal-lined, and I&#8217;ve checked &#8211; repeatedly -the metal lining on this one is grounding. This is [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}