...you just try and see, you can not hurt anything
but what do you mean by reverse polarity? you have regular CMC4`s right?
the schoeps with reversed polarity are marked with a "p" and I know of no CMC4"p"
or am I missing something here?
Well, there are 2 adapters for each mic. One is for power, and one reverses polarity. I'm not sure on specifics, I bought the adapters with the bodies, and just figured I'd never run across a box that could provide parallel power.
I believe they are 'regular'- oh, just found the original PM from ShawnF, who I bought them from:
"let me dig into this in detail...
The schoeps cmc4-uk is a very unique mic body because it requires one of the most unique forms of power of any mic currently available. It requires what is known as red-dot t-power. Standard T-power sends 12V of current to the mics. Red dotted t-power is basically the same as standard t-power except the positive and negative signals are swapped. So the XLR barrels you are getting serve two different tasks. One pair of barrels (the phantom adapters) step 48v power down to 12v and the other pair (polarity cross adapters) swap the positive and negative signals which are sent on pins 2 and 3 of a standard XLR cable. The Phantom adapters are easy to tell apart from the polarity cross adapters. What you'll need to do is plug one phantom adapter into the polarity cross adapter and put it in the chain for one mic. then plug the other phantom adapter into the other polarity cross adapter and put them in the chain for the other mic.
The good news is that you won't blow anything up even if you don't use them. The mics won't work, but it won't break them. Now that being said It's still not a good idea to hook them up without the adapters. You'll see once you have them in your hands, but it's pretty self explanatory. I understand your questions though. I was totally confused when I bought them and the guy I bought them from didn't know a dambn thing about them so I had to read all kinds of crap on the internet and call schoeps retailers for information. It was not fun. Don't worry though I'm happy to answer any questions you have about them.
I'll ship the adapters in the correct configuration. all you'll need to do is put them on the end of your mic cables and plug the cables into the mics.
As far as the miodification I mentioned earilier goes... Basically all you need to do is open up the phantom adpaters and swap the wires for pins 2 and 3 and resolder them. Then you could remove the Polarity cross adapters from the chain. If you are decent with a soldering iron or you know anyone that is it would take less than 5 minutes to do. Truth be told it's about as simple an electronics job gets, but I just have no confidence in my abilities with a soldering iron. I'd highly recommend doing it though just to reduce the amount of crap in your signal chain (and crap you have to carry in your bag/deal with at a show)."