New (faulty) toys

After 18 months of podcasting, we decided to reward ourselves with new microphones.  I ended up spending hours – literally hours – trying to figure out why my voice sounded like a demon from the depths of hell with the new gear.  Only after trying all kinds of hardware and software tweaks did I think to plug in the second mic… which worked fine.  Turns out one of our mics was faulty.  You can hear the difference below.