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Old March 4th 08, 01:24 PM posted to rec.audio.misc,rec.audio.tech,uk.rec.audio
Ron Hardin
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Default Micrphone recomendatios sought

Don Pearce wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:05:47 -0500, Ron Hardin
wrote:

Watch out! Some phantom power mics blow up Behringer mixers.

In particular the Rode NTG-2. If you turn on phantom power the phantom
power permanently is destroyed in the mixer.


Where on earth did you pick up that little urban legend? You can dead
short a behringer preamp without damage - as you probably can any pre.
They are current-limited by a pair of 6.2k resistors, so it would take
some extraordinary feat of engineering incompetence to make them
susceptible.


I just report. It destroyed two mixers, MX802A's. The mic didn't
work on phantom power, and the phantom power light no longer came on
when you flipped it on afterwards.

``destroyed'' means only that phantom power no longer works.
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