acoustic-electric guitar and phatom power.

[daph]

Hi. I have an Ibanez AEF30E acoustic-electric guitar. It uses two AA batteries to power its electronics. It has an XLR out on it that I'm currently running into my mixer. Now I should be receiving a condenser mic soon which I will be able to power since my mixer has phantom power. What I'm worried about is that my mixer supplies phantom power to all channels with XLR and I don't know if my guitar's electronics will be able to handle phantom power. Do you guys know if it will?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jimmi]

Hi. I have an Ibanez AEF30E acoustic-electric guitar. It uses two AA batteries to power its electronics. It has an XLR out on it that I'm currently running into my mixer. Now I should be receiving a condenser mic soon which I will be able to power since my mixer has phantom power. What I'm worried about is that my mixer supplies phantom power to all channels with XLR and I don't know if my guitar's electronics will be able to handle phantom power. Do you guys know if it will?

Thanks in advance.

What mixer have you got? Phantom power kinda has to be switchable in my experience. Guitars dont require 48v. Maybe phantom power is supplied to all your xlr inputs once you switch it on on your board? I'm pretty sure 48v is turnonable/turnoffable on your board. I'm psychic.

You'll only need 48v to power your new mic. DI'ing your guitar will only require a DI box or an instrument level input.

 

[daph]

What mixer have you got? Phantom power kinda has to be switchable in my experience. Guitars dont require 48v. Maybe phantom power is supplied to all your xlr inputs once you switch it on on your board? I'm pretty sure 48v is turnonable/turnoffable on your board. I'm psychic.

You'll only need 48v to power your new mic. DI'ing your guitar will only require a DI box or an instrument level input.

My mixer is a Phonic Helix18 MK2 FW board. And yeah, phantom power is switchable, but it's an all channels or no channels thing. So once I switch it on to power the mic, it will be on all other XLR inputs. I know my guitar doesn't require 48v. I just want to know if I can have the guitar plugged into the board via XLR with phantom power on, without the phantom power frying the electronics in it.

Thanks for replying.

 

[jimmi]

Dont send phantom power to your guitar. I reckon it'll do damage. Scholars may maintain this . Or they may say it'll do no damage but they're just scholars. I say dont.

Can you take an instrument level signal from your guitar to a DI?

Power your new mic with a standalone power supply?

I have lots of channels but only 2 with phantom power. Phantom power box$35. I need some.

 

[daph]

Dont send phantom power to your guitar. I reckon it'll do damage. Scholars may maintain this . Or they may say it'll do no damage but they're just scholars. I say dont.

Can you take an instrument level signal from your guitar to a DI?

Power your new mic with a standalone power supply?

I have lots of channels but only 2 with phantom power. Phantom power box$35. I need some.

Ok. Thank you. I can figure out what to do from here.