<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">So today I made a Radioshack run and picked up a bunch of components - diodes, pots, rectifier, and.. 3 microphone elements. But I seem to be lacking in something. I attached the red lead to the contact on the side of a 1/4" audio jack and the white lead to the contact on the bottom, put a cable between that and a tape recorder with 1/4 input, and recorded... got nothing save a few clicks when my fingers shorted the thing by accident. Switched the polarity, same results. Tried the other 3 mics, same results. Then I tried each into a piece o crap guitar amp (about 3 watts, iirc) and got nothing but shorts again. Am I missing something terribly obvious, or did I pick three bad elements out of the five they had?</FONT></HTML>