The sound of Decay

About a year ago when I began regularly playing Xbox live, I decided to arm myself with an Xbox messenger kit. Economically speaking this is a great deal. A mic and text pad both of which can be plugged in at the same time for about 30 bucks. However after about a year of gentle use my mic appeared to be having issues.

Since about a week 1/2 ago my headset started getting ridiculous feed-back from other players and it was beginning to interfere with conversations. Several of my friends have had similar problems before. One of my friend's mics drops out without warning, missing that part of the conversation or not delivering her input. And my other friend's mic farts. It literally makes a farting noise periodically when he talks. It's funny for five minutes and then it gets old. But I was confused because I always treated my Headset with respect. I never threw it, my pets never attempted to eat or mate with it.

So why am I getting such bad feed-back? Well it turns out the mic uses a ton of juice and when I had low batteries in my controllers it would start dropping.  Another mystery solved by MrCannon!