Recording drums

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Ive just recently purchased a Tascam US-1800 audio interface which has 8 XLR inputs on the front for mics. There are 2 buttons for Phantom power the first provides it to inputs 1-4 the second 5-8. i want to start recording drums as soon as this weekend im going out and purchasing a CAD Pro 7 drum mic kit. It comes with a KM212 dynamic cardioid kick drum mic, 3 TM211 dynamic cardioid tom mics with drum mount clips, a SN 210 dynamic cardioid snare mic with drum mount clip, and 2 CM 217 cardioid mini pencil condenser overhead microphones with external roll-off and pad. I know a bit about the technical aspect behind recording but not to much. my question is if i have the 2 condenser mics plugged in to inputs 1 and 2 i will need to turn on phantom power to inputs 1-4, will this damage the two other mics i plug into inputs 3 and 4?
 
If the one switch controls phantom for 4 channels, you won't want to put dynamic mics on any of those 4 channels.
 
No, there's no danger at all. It sends the phantom power to the mics that need it and doesn't affect the ones that don't. I think that's why it's actually called "phantom" power. It's there, but is it really?.....Pretty spooky. :eek:
 
O_O. . . i see what you did there ;D but in seriousness, plugging in 2 of the tom mics wont hurt the mics at all?
 
RAMI is right. It won't hurt the dynamics. I have a 32 channel board with phantom power, but the phantom power is in groups of 8 channels. If I have two mics in a group of 8, I turn on phantom power for that group--the dynamics on the other six channels are just fine.
 
Watch out for ribbon mics though. Not sure if you're going to be using any ribbon mics any time soon, but keep it in the back of your mind that phantom power can fry a ribbon mic. No worries with those dynamic mics though.
 
guitarplayr82 said:
Watch out for ribbon mics though. Not sure if you're going to be using any ribbon mics any time soon, but keep it in the back of your mind that phantom power can fry a ribbon mic. No worries with those dynamic mics though.
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I should have mentioned that--phantom power can damage ribbon mics. But not all ribbon mics. I don't know where the line is, but there is a line--apparently there are older ribbon mics that are easily damaged by phantom power, while many newer ones aren't. I really don't if that line is about age, or technology. I do know that all of my ribbon mics (and I have about 12) are all less than 10 years old. They've all had phantom power applied at some point or another, and they all still work fine.

I'm not saying that it's cool to send 48V to your ribbon mics, I'm just saying that there is some differentiator between those that are at risk, and those that aren't. In any case, I play it safe and keep my ribbon mics in a group that will have no phantom power.
 
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