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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: utahtaper on October 17, 2004, 11:45:05 PM

Title: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: utahtaper on October 17, 2004, 11:45:05 PM

Do you know if the voltage requirement that EW's need is too much for the UA5?

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: Lee on October 18, 2004, 12:16:37 AM

I ran it for about 6 months with no trouble

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: pfife on October 18, 2004, 08:39:44 AM

I did some searching on this in the past- there are reports on the annals of TS.com about people having problems with this setup... but there are also many reports of people having no problems whatsoever.

I'd do a search in the archives and try to read some of the messages from people that reported having problems.  My personal choice was to pass on the Earthworks because of the mere possibility that it would fry the pre.  But, that's my choice.

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: MattD on October 18, 2004, 01:40:19 PM

It's not the pre that it'd fry, just the phantom power supply.

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: timP on October 19, 2004, 08:56:09 AM

BecyT makes some killer EW>UA5>lappy tapes with no problems

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: Daryan on October 19, 2004, 11:31:25 AM

Agreed, BT's tapes are very nice.  However, I am almost certain that the ua-5 fried at one point.  You should probably ask her though!

Daryan

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: wbrisette on October 21, 2004, 02:08:17 PM

Quote from: ShittyTapes on October 19, 2004, 11:31:25 AM

Agreed, BT's tapes are very nice.  However, I am almost certain that the ua-5 fried at one point.  You should probably ask her though!

The SR-77, and QTC-1 mics require 10 mA of power, with the amount of power required by the UA-5 (450 mA), I'd be surprised if it didn't supply enough juice.

I've run both the SR-77's and QTC-1 mics through a variety of gear (including straight out of the DA-P1) and never had any issues.

Wayne

Title: Re: Earthworks w/ UA5
Post by: dnsacks on October 21, 2004, 02:31:18 PM

See: http://www.oade.com/cgi-bin/miva?Forum/showmsg.mv+message=10323

Speculation from Doug, but given his knowledge of the workings of the UA5, I'd be a bit concerned. 

Couldn't you avoid this issue by running earthworks > ps2 > ua5 and powering the ps2 off of the same external battery as the ua5?