I was right.

After relentless attempts to make this microphone work, I have failed. The components were installed, the mic looks like a mic, and the schematic mostly matches the final product. When I say "mostly" I mean that the microphone was updated, while the schematic and circuit board layout weren't. There are wires on the mic that do not exist on the schematic. I cannot find out where these connect to, and when the microphone didn't work at all, I didn't take it well.

Here is the schematic:

Here is the circuit board layout:

Here is the kit I had been sent (more or less):

Here's a photo illustrating how useful it is after I built it:

The box which holds my microphone, which began as a container of hope, has since become a coffin for my failed experiment. Frankenstein's creature, but without the life. I plan on coming back next quarter to work on it until I will be able to scream, "It's alive!"

Until then.