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Re: a gear question

Subject: Re: a gear question
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:51:29 -0500
From: "David Kuhn" <>

> 
> 
> Friends,
> Thru the enormous generosity of a friend, I have come by a pair of 
> Sennheiser MKH20's and a Portadisc--I am very pleased with how things 
> sound, to say the least!  A question from a non-tech--do I really 
> need these MZA14 power supplies, considering that the Portadisc 
> supplies the necessary phantom power? Or, put another way, under what 
> conditions would I need the MZA14's?

I need friends like that!

The Portadisc will run the MKH-20's just fine. Here's what I have mine 
doing:
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/my_mod_sass.html

Hint: you are most of the way there to having a Mod SASS. The hard part 
is affording the MKH-20's.

Only use I can think of is if you get into trying to run the MKH20's 
through a wireless link. Then you'd need power out at the transmitter. 
I'm experimenting with this using Sennheiser's digital wireless, but I 
normally hook the SASS/MKH-20 to my Sound Devices MP2 for both power and 
a match to the transmitters. Then the receiver direct into the Portadisc.

Walt




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