antichef
pornk rock
OK - I have two M-Audio DMP2 microphone preamp units, but only one wall wart (I wasn't paying attention when I bought the second one, and they #\@F! gave me a 5volt instead of a 9 volt - anyway...). I haven't used them yet, really - I had planned to install them on a rack tray and put them in my rack. Now I can't find the rack tray, and only having one wall wart is bugging me (and you'd be surprised how hard it is to find a 9volt AC to AC 1000 miliamp (1 amp?) wall wart). Given that, and the fact that the 48v phantom button is on the *back* of the units (which would be totally inaccessible when they're racked on the tray) and that they don't quite put out the whole 48v, anyway, I was thinking: wouldn't it be nice to pull the guts out of these and build them into a nice 4 channel rack unit with a reworked 48v phantom circuit for each channel and all the buttons and switches and stuff where I want them? (sure it would ). I started looking around for rack enclosures, and found myself in a cold, unfriendly world.
Then I remembered that I also got one of these Art "Powerbase 4x4" rackmount power strips:
http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type=84&cat=7&id=54
as a bonus when I bought my Digital MPA, and it's just sitting there, too. I was thinking, assuming everything fits (which it may not), why not use that to house the DMP2 guts? I guess I'd have to build a new power supply inside (but perhaps I have a head start because of what's already there) also and rework the phantom circuits, of course.
Is this crazy thinking?
Then I remembered that I also got one of these Art "Powerbase 4x4" rackmount power strips:
http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type=84&cat=7&id=54
as a bonus when I bought my Digital MPA, and it's just sitting there, too. I was thinking, assuming everything fits (which it may not), why not use that to house the DMP2 guts? I guess I'd have to build a new power supply inside (but perhaps I have a head start because of what's already there) also and rework the phantom circuits, of course.
Is this crazy thinking?