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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: Cheesecadet on April 04, 2018, 04:28:08 PM
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Does anyone know if it is possible to use a battery powered mic (with battery installed) into a preamp like a Naiant Tinybox or PIPsqueak before going into a recorder and that would. It negatively effect sound?
I ask because I have an old vintage mic that has relatively low output even when running mic in and I would like to have a clean gain stage instead of running Hi Plus on my dr70d deck ( which has way too much noise).
Thx
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As long as there is no phantom power going the other way I dont see any problem. but there are smarter folks than me here :-\
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As long as there is no phantom power going the other way I dont see any problem. but there are smarter folks than me here :-\
So the Naiant Tinybox and PIPsqueak are both preamps that provide powering to mics ans well as gain. If these preamps are typically sending power to mics and I add a battery powered mic to the input that is not bad for the mic or create any other problems?
The pres do not provide +48 phantom power but they are still sending power to the pre's input (thus mics downstream).
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I'm not sure about the Tinybox and PIPsqueak particulars. But like seethreepo said, as long as you can turn off phantom power, you have no problem running battery powered mics into a preamp. 20 years ago I used to run a pair of AKG C1000s that each had a 9V internal battery and I ran them into a Beyer MV-100 preamp with the 48V phantom turned off.
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If you are talking about using a battery powered mic and applying P48 to it since you can't turn off mic power you SHOULD be okay. MOST mics will ignore power they don't need - with the exception of ribbon mics.
If you are talking about Plug In Power from a mini input I wouldn't worry about it at all. I used a battery powered mic with my old MD and could not turn off the PIP and never had any problems.
YMMV of course...