phantom power on dynamic mic

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I have 6 mics hooked into my mixing board, and im going to use all 6 at once on a recording. I am using 1 condenser for vocals, 1 condenser for acoustic guitar, and 4 dynamics for drums. when i power up my phantom power for the condenser mics, will it hurt the dynamic mics?
 
To expand just slightly on guitaristic's response: if all the dynamic mics have balanced outputs and you XLR cables are properly wired, you'll be fine. The phantom is fed at a positive voltage on both legs of the XLR and, when the balancing circuit inverts one leg, the voltage is totally cancelled out.

In all my years, I've never had a problem...but once hear of a guy using at cheapo unbalanced mic via only one leg of an XLR and he fried that mic. Mind you, the whole mic was only worth about a dollar so not exactly a big loss!

Bob
 
I've had to use global phantom power about a million times does nothing to dynamic microphones <tap on computer screen for luck> just be careful of using ribbon microphones in that set up.

Six microphones to your console? Then what? Aren't you only able to mix to your DAW/computer via two channels from the console?
 
yah... thats what soundchecking and getting a good take is for...


it's just me on acoustic guitar and vocals and another guy on drums. we lay down a good base take and overdub from there...
 
Unless you don't mind the bleed !

For there shall be not blood ~ but bleed......
 
whoever said that the original base track will even end up in the master?
 
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