hey, while we're on the subject of recording stuff...i have a problem.
i recently bought a studio condenser mic, and according to the manual and the guy down at my music dealer, it requires a phantom power source [?!?!?!] to operate. now, the guy at the store said that the recorder i have should be able to work with this mic. but when i got home and tried it out, the mic didn't go on at all.
now, there's no switch or anything on the mic itself, just a little green light that's supposed to turn on when it is plugged into a recorder that has a phantom power source available. if the recorder itself does not have a phantom source, then an external source can be used [according to the manual]. thing is, the guy at the store uses the same mic and the same recorder as i do, and apparently it all works fine and dandy for him...but not so for me! so if my recorder for some reason doesn't have this phantom source thingy then i may have to get an external source...BUT i don't even know WHERE i can get a phantom power source, or even what one looks like...?!
as you can see i am pretty gibbled up right now over this whole recorder/studio mic problem. so does anyone here have any ideas as to what the hell can be going on with this?
