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Re: +4/-10 button usage
Ribbon mic is destroyed with phantom power
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Re: +4/-10 button usage
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Urban myth. Faulty wiring or hot patching especially through a TRS or Bantam/TT patchbay can fry the ribbon. Other than that, ribbons don’t care if phantom is switched on or not.
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Re: +4/-10 button usage
Royer Labs disagrees with you. I would not want to risk a R-121 but to each his own
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I called Cascade, and when I told the guy what year I purchased the mics (2012) he said that anything from 2012 is passive.
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FWIW, my Cascade Fathead II ribbons never had any issues with phantom power. Maybe the transformer is key as transformers(to the best of my knowledge)will not pass DC voltage(not sure if the Royers have transformers or not).
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Re: +4/-10 button usage
I fried an RCA 77DX because it was wired with a grounded center tap for broadcast station use. Neumann's original phantom power instructions warned of this risk and of the need to rewire microphones but like most recording engineers in the '60s, only the shop guys had access to that documentation. Somewhere this myth that "it's perfectly safe" became popular among people who didn't realize their shop had checked and rewired their microphones.
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Re: +4/-10 button usage
My console delivers phantom power 24/7. I have never shut it off and have never lost a mic because of it. Though I don't have any rewired mics other than a couple of U87s and one U47. And they don't apply to this subject.
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