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Re: Microphone Follow-up

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-03-14 19:04

I can't be very specific about the brands you're using - just a generic explanation:
Some kinds of microphones need energy to operate (for the sake of the example, pretend they have some kind of amplifier built-in), others (passive, like speakers, but the other way round) do not. The former now need some kind of power supply, either a battery built-in into the microphone body, or through the wires of the microphone cable.
Now the ingenious part of all that phantom thing is that you can plug a "plain old boring" microphone into a socket providing phantom power, and it still works and - supposedly - doesn't do any damage.
A phantom power supply simply "injects" some current into the microphone cable so that you can use an "unpowered" socket in your amplifier.

I hope this has been generic enough to make you tell the mic vendor what exactly you already have and what you need to get goin'.

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Ben

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