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Yeah, they’re really not made very well (I have the same condensers), although you can mod them and make them awesome with parts from microphoneparts.com :D

Now thats a cool tip, any instructions you can link me to? Im not quite that tech savy...

Yeah man! This link will show you the pieces you can get and there’s some samples of the audio quality of the improved mic:

https://microphone-parts.com/pages/mxl-990-mods