One more thing. If I'm thinking of a second mic for the future, should I
get the Y cable and just use one side?
At 05:27 PM 10/26/2005, you wrote:
>Oops -- that's right, 3.5mm is roughly 1/8".
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>If you want to use a second mic that will not be powered by the Rolls
>box, just disconnect one of the female XLR cables from the Rolls
>output and attach the second mic cable to it. Now you have one mic
>cable passing through the Rolls, and one that bypasses it. Both
>connect to the "Y" cable that ends in the 3.5mm plug. This way the
>Rode mic will be recorded on one of the channels, and the second mic
>on the other.
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>This is one case where a picture is much better than words.
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>The Rolls box is powered by two 9v batteries. Making the giant leap
>of faith that each battery powers one mic, it might be possible to
>take one battery out and use its channel, now unpowered, to connect to
>the mic that has its own power module.
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>If you want to try this approach, be sure to check the phantom power
>delivered to the mic cables using a multimeter before attaching your mic.
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>--oryoki
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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