two mics to one channel.please help

[steev93]

hi im using a tascam 4 track to record an album. Im planning on mcng up my drum kit with a bass mic and a condenser as an overhead but as im limeted to 4 tracks i want to put both mics to one track. The problem is that the condenser needs phantom power.
my idea was to get a dual phantom power supply and then use a xlr spltter cable from the outputs of the phantom to one track on the tascam.

Can anybody give me any better suggestion please. just want the best sound i can get with as little noise as possible.
thanks
steve

 

[dastrick]

So you're using a total of 2 mics? I don't see the problem if you have a 4 track recorder. Maybe I'm missing something.

 

[dastrick]

With four tracks available, I would use:

1. Kick
2. Snare
3. Overhead
4. Overhead

 

[mjbphotos]

I'm guessing he wants the other 3 tracks for other instruments to be recorded at the same time.

You need to get a (2-channel at least) mixer with phantom power - if you don't get something with adjustable volume per input, you'll never get it balanced.

 

[mixsit]

I'm thinking the same. You may be able to get by with a Y cord (not sure what the penalties are -besides impedance issues, but note 'combiners are either active or transformer), but especially if you don't already have phantom by the time you buy that you could get a mixer.

http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=AT8681
At combiner with balance control.

 

[A Reel Person]

A Tascam 4-track

is not specific enough. Some Tascam 4-tracks have input mixing capability on board, some don't. Guessing by the nature of your post, yours doesn't. Is it an MF-P01 or a Porta 02?

 

[oretez]

or, particularly as a dual phantom box will run in neighborhood of $50 (and while it might work for you the non isolated xlr 'y' cables would not typically be a recommendation . . . and with no control over balance between kick and overhead getting 'the' sound you wanted would be problematic) you could spring for the $90 Peavey PV6 . . . four mic inputs with phantom power with mixing capability

though it does not provide phantom power the $40 Art mic splitter/combiner (Split/Com Pro?) is better, relative, choice for combining output from two mic's then just a y . . . but you still face the issue of no control over signal going to tape other then hands, feet, mic placement. It is certainly within the realm of reality that you can get useable results . . . but dual phantom + xlr y (new) is going run in neighborhood of $67 and produces a 'specialized' outcome . . . that is, there are specific reasons to pursue that route (though they have nothing to do with getting best sound, and pursuing 'best' potential sound with that route would cost a lot more) a small mixer is a more general solution (and used I sure you could find a mixer with phantom power for under $60)