New to me...

[nate_karr]

So I'm taking a step forward with my 10 yrs of guitar playing and decided to build a home studio for my music. I'm a Solo artist and i mainly play acoustic folk/country/classic rock. I grew up with my dad having a fairly large home studio in our basement. I'm not new to recording but i'm no professional. I picked up a Boss BR-8 Recording Studio, which my dad pointed out does not have phatom power to power a condenser mic. here's where my question is... what are my options in powering a Condenser mic? some sort of power source?

plz help.

 

[miroslav]

There are small, standalone phantom power boxes you can get for just the one mic.

Check out the stuff at ART:

http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type=90&cat=13&id=70

http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type=90&cat=13&id=69

 

[TheChikenMaster]

you can also look into the possibility of preamps.

 

[Armistice]

Do you have any money to spend, or are you after the cheapest solution?

A preamp, either single or multichannel (even though your Boss machine has them) could be a better longer term investment than a phantom power box if you're really going to get into recording.

I wonder what percentage of "I'm new here and I have a question" questions are about phantom power? I know mine was...

 

[nate_karr]

Thank you guyz. I guess if i would have snoop'd around a little more i would have found it.

I'm guessing Phantom Power is a common question?

 

[Jeff_D]

Do you have any money to spend, or are you after the cheapest solution?

A preamp, either single or multichannel (even though your Boss machine has them) could be a better longer term investment than a phantom power box if you're really going to get into recording.

Totally agree. I'd check out an AudioBuddy, or even better a DMP3 from MAudio