So… yeah.  There’s been this crackly sound coming from my mic for like a month or so and I literally tired every solution in the world (including a couple of new microphones) before checking the wiring under my desk.

In fairness to myself, there was no busted cable or loose connection…

…but also in fairness I redid some of the cabling when I updated my graphics card and like a moron ran a USB cable to my hub where my mixer is plugged in to one of the outlets on my monitor, and not in the daisy-chain way to get the monitors ports running to my computer, but the out on the monitor to the USB-B in on the hub.  Sooooooooooo it was getting dirty power and causing a buzz I guess.  The moment I set things to “not stupid” mode everything is fine again…

…other than the fact that I needed to return a bunch of stuff.

SMART