Bill Ruys wrote:
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Great. I'll get a new tube first and go from there. Thanks Scott.

I had a noisy tube mic too. I tried a few different tubes, but settled on
this one:
http://www.thetubestore.com/janphilips6922.html

It's a 6DJ8/6922, same as yours. It turned out to be the absolute quietest
and sounds very nice too. These tubes are NOS American made (circa 1980's)
and I think they are much better than any of the contemporary Russian or
Chinese tubes that are around in abundance these days.

You should know that currently there are a large number of NOS JAN6922 tubes
on the market which are rejects from a high-end audio manufacturer. At least
one microphone manufacturer has bought a palletload of the rejects. So do
watch out for a while until they work their way out of the supply chain.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."