On Sunday 25 January 2009 18:38:21 Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:28:32AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > > 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*. 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
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