Small waste of money

A while ago I bought a small contact mic from Amazon. Some YouTube channels seemed to like these things a lot, even more because the mic was capable of great sound with a small investment.

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So I went ahead and spent the whopping $12.88, plus taxes, of course.

It arrived a few days later and I connected it to my Zoom H6. It worked “flawlessly” until I clipped it onto something that had metal in it, like my roof.

There, I had the unpleasant surprise to hear some radio station blaring out someone with some kind of financial information?!? That was most certainly not what I expected to hear.

Listen to this for yourself:

I’m not going to bother sending this back, but I’m now hesitant to go and get another one. If you are wondering what this thingy was: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0833PH7SP

Until next time…