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Upgrade from CoreSoundBinaurals to Neumann KM 184: Battery Box??

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widu99:
Dear all

I am looking to upgrade from my good old CoreSound Binaurals to the next level and I am thinking about buying Neumann KM 184 mics recording to a Sony PCM-M10.

The missing part is the battery box ... where to get a good one to connect the mics to the Sony?

Cheers
-widu

fireonshakedwnstreet:
You would need an external phantom power source like the Denecke PS-2 or a preamp that provides 48 volt phantom power to power the mics. Then you can connect to the M10.

Popmarter:
Just buy a Zoom F3 and skip the part inbetween

DSatz:
It's not so easy to connect balanced, professional, phantom-powered studio microphones to the input of a consumer recorder like the M 10. You have four issues all at once:

(1) providing 48-Volt phantom power to the microphones;
(2) removing the residue of the ~48 Volts DC from the microphones' signals (the recorder's inputs can't handle it);
(3) unbalancing those signals (the M 10 has unbalanced inputs, and there's no one adapter that works optimally or even correctly with all balanced microphones);
(4) making sure that the signals don't overload the input stage of your recorder. (Professional condenser microphones, including those Neumanns, generally have much higher output levels than the consumer microphones that the M 10 was built to work with, and nearly all recorders have input circuits that come before the rec level controls, so that even if your meters never go above -12 the input circuit can still be distorting like crazy.)

There are technical solutions for each of those four problems, but by far the simplest approach is to use an outboard mike preamp that has 48-Volt phantom powering built in, and unbalanced, consumer-level outputs which you can connect to the aux (line) inputs of the M 10.

morst:

--- Quote from: DSatz on July 02, 2023, 06:27:59 PM --- by far the simplest approach is to use an outboard mike preamp that has 48-Volt phantom powering built in, and unbalanced, consumer-level outputs which you can connect to the aux (line) inputs of the M 10.

--- End quote ---

Totally agree.
I have had very good results with the Shure FP24 aka the Sound Devices MixPre (not to be confused with the new MixPre-# series of recorders) and my old favorite, the BeyerDynamic MV100.
Both units have XLR inputs.
The Shure/SD has balanced XLR and unbalanced 1/8" outputs, the Beyer has unbalanced RCA and 1/8" outputs.

Here is the user manual for the Beyer MV100
https://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=103430.msg1379146#msg1379146

Example of the Beyer with Neumann KM140 set, very similar to KM184.
https://archive.org/details/VictorKrummenacher2015-05-01


edit: thinking about it, the next issue becomes powering this new box.
The Shure/SD takes a pair of AAs, and can also run externally using standard 5v USB power packs.
The Beyer is a bit more difficult, running nearly 5 hours on a pair of 9V cells, or calling for a 24v DC supply, with low power indicator coming on at or below 14 Volts!

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