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1. Re: Phantom power noise - again!!!

Subject: 1. Re: Phantom power noise - again!!!
From: "Phil Tyler" macmang4125
Date: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:20 am ((PDT))
--- In  Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> Klas, you wrote,
>
> >That the signal is on pin 3, instead of pin 2, is only a matter of
> >taste, really.
>
> It used to be that way, but now there is an AES standard. Pin 2 is
> hot or in-phase.

Indeed, and the method I was given to remember the pin layout was:

1 - X =3D Earth
2 - L =3D Live
3 - R =3D Return

Phil

>Now if this particular mic puts out an inverted
> signal, voltage going in the opposite direction from sound pressure,
> then driving pin 3 would make sense.
>
> -Dan Dugan
>






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