Re: Micrphone recomendatios sought

Don Pearce wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:05:47 -0500, Ron Hardin
> <rhhardin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >Watch out!  Some phantom power mics blow up Behringer mixers.
> >
> >In particular the Rode NTG-2.  If you turn on phantom power the phantom
> >power permanently is destroyed in the mixer.
> 
> Where on earth did you pick up that little urban legend? You can dead
> short a behringer preamp without damage - as you probably can any pre.
> They are current-limited by a pair of 6.2k resistors, so it would take
> some extraordinary feat of engineering incompetence to make them
> susceptible.

I just re****t.  It destroyed two mixers, MX802A's.  The mic didn't
work on phantom power, and the phantom power light no longer came on
when you flipped it on afterwards.

``destroyed'' means only that phantom power no longer works.
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