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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
