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Title: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: InfiniteOhms on October 21, 2004, 10:22:06 PM

Well i'v had my w-mod ua-5 for about a year now and i love it ... but tommarow i want to do something i have yet to do with it and i just want to check and make sure i'm not going to fuck anything up ... and that is: use one mic with phantom power on. It says in the manual that you should never turn on phantom without proper equpiment plugged in ...but what happens if i only use one input?

Any help much apreciated.
-Aaron

P.S. The reason for using only one mic is i'm going to be recording a friend of mine telling stories for a little collection of travaling stories i'v decided to put together and publish. This guy tells amazing stories ... he once hitched a ride with a trucker who stabbed a guy to death with  a screwdriver.

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: fozzy on October 21, 2004, 10:40:38 PM

shouldn't be a problem, why not record in stereo?

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: InfiniteOhms on October 21, 2004, 10:42:40 PM

Thanks for the input.

Because i dont want to have to carry an extra mic, cable and shock mount ... its only one voice so stereo seems overkill.

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: Just Taper Mark from NC on October 21, 2004, 10:52:35 PM

but will it not be a 1 channel only recording ???

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: InfiniteOhms on October 21, 2004, 10:55:16 PM

ya thats right, one channel ... i dont understand why your confused  :-[

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: Just Taper Mark from NC on October 21, 2004, 11:06:33 PM

I'm just trying to figure out why you want to make a one channel recording
speech or not,why not have it sound it's best?

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: Ed. on October 21, 2004, 11:25:23 PM

a screwdriver?

a kid i knew in highschool had a stepdad who, when he was in highschool, got attacked by a guy with a crowbar and he punched him to death.

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: InfiniteOhms on October 22, 2004, 04:42:38 PM

Fuck.... it didn't work  :( I'm thinking it must be a bad mic cable, but if its not i'll report back.

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2004, 04:51:02 PM

fwiw even though you'd be recording with one mic hooked up you'd still be making a sereo recording. The other channel will just have no information.

Title: Re: Semi-stupid phantom power and the UA5 question.
Post by: Scooter on October 22, 2004, 08:39:22 PM

in post just copy the one track to a new wave file left chan, then copy again to right chan.  there you have it, two channel mono recording.