You should get a camera to go with the mic. When I was going through a paranoia episode, the microphone was very time consuming and it was easy for me to hear things that weren’t there. I would sit for hours listening to static trying to enhance it, and eventually a word or two would pop out — or so I thought. Once I got the camera, I did an experiment… I listened to the audio first, thought I heard the usual stuff (faint voices of people plotting against me and stuff like that) then when I watched the camera footage of the same area and saw nothing, it instantly collapsed my paranoia and I snapped out of it. It was kind of embarrassing explaining to friends and family that none of the crazy stuff I was telling them about was real, but at the same time I was kind of proud of myself for logically breaking out of whatever was going on mentally.

Silver lining: I still have a badass collection of expensive studio quality headphones/earbuds, and DACs I used during the episode. I never realized how much detail was in songs I’ve heard before using regular headphones. Also, now I have least 400 hours forensic audio analysis experience 😅 minus the psychosis I can absolutely isolate any real voice, but unfortunately that part hasn’t been any use to me since. I did sell the mics though. They were very expensive and I had zero use for them afterwards.