25 Jan
2009
25 Jan
'09
2:17 p.m.
On Sunday 25 January 2009 18:38:21 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:28:32AM +0800, Ray Rashif
wrote:
Unless the DI/Preamp gets its power from the phantom-power. Then the answer is
actually "yes" :-)
Confusing... Rule of thumb: Try without first, if there is no sound, unplug,
switch on the phantom power and plug it in again to see if that helps.
Arnold
As long as it's balanced, there won't be
any issue.
That is *absolutely not true*. Any website that
claims that you can safely connect a phantom
powered mic input to any balanced output is
providing very bad advice to its readers.
It depends on *how* the preamp output is balanced.
If it has a transformer to balance the output
there will be no problem.
If it is 'actively' or 'electronically' (!)
balanced it depends on the if the designer
has allowed for phantom power or not. In
many cases the answer is *no*.