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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: floop on December 23, 2005, 06:34:14 PM
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I dunno how weird this idea is. Tell me if i'm stupid.
I have an mbox i bought years ago, but i rarely record w/ it because my laptop is so huge.
We are messing around making a no-budget indy film and I was wondering if it would be possible to use the mbox as an ad hoc beachtek-style preamp.
I've seen various "usb batteries" to power usb devices... anybody know if it would work to hook the mbox up to a battery then use it as a phantom preamp to feed a recorder either via the headphone or the spdif outputs?
Any obvious caveats you guys see? (to be honest i'm not sure if the mbox does a live feed from analog in to spdif out, but i know the headphone out would work to feed a line input recorder.)
oh, and, merry christmas!
thanks,
-andrew