[LAU] OT: Phantom power and my acoustic guitar

[Andrea Del Signore]

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 11:58 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Andrea Del Signore wrote:
> > My question is: can I connect an Ibanez AW40ECE-NT guitar to a mixer with
> > phantom power switched on? The guitar has a fishman pickup and an Ibanez SST
> > preamp and I'll connect with the mixer using the XLR output, so the connection
> > will be XLR to XLR.
> >   
> 
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_power
> 
> I'm not sure it will necessarily hurt anything, but I don't think it's 
> going to help your guitar sound. You're already plugged into a preamp, I 
> don't think you need further power.
> 
> Best,
> 
> dp
> 

Hi Dave,

yes I don't need phantom power for my guitar :)

I'm in a very common case that switching the phantom power ON on the
mixer will send the 48V to all the mixer XLR inputs and I can't use any
other input channel for my guitar without some compromise.

Ah and I need phantom to power a condeser microphone of course.

Best regards,
Andrea