Phantom Powered Mic Box??

I may be jumping the gun here as I am only in the middle of my very first project (recapping/rechipping some channels in a Yamaha MC1604 console). But I do have a need for a couple of things in my very modest home studio and I was thinking of combining them into one piece. I'd like to hear some thoughts on this idea.

I need a mic box for my drums which are about 20 feet away from my sound card and the cables laying all about is messy. I also wanted to have a dedicated phantom power box for my condenser mics so I can easily run them into a patchbay with out having 48V running through it and run my mics to any of my preamps without switching too many cables.

So my thought was to build a box with 4 channels with XLR inputs, TRS outputs, and individual switchable phantom power on each line.

Does this sound like a feasible idea? Are there any pitfalls that i don't know about? Is there a Phantom PSU design that would work well for this kind of project? Any additional thoughts that may make this a better unit?

I don't know very much about this DIY stuff, but i figure the best way to get into it is making something you need/want and I want one of these.

Thanks for reading.

Matt

You'll probably find all your answers here:
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/microphone_powering.html

Cheers Patr!ck

Wow, there is a lot of information on that site. Thanks for the link.

Matt

Lot's of good information on this page, but chaotic presentation. It took me quite a while to digest. Afterwards, I had a 1RU box with 4 ins/outs. Definitely a good first "from scratch" project.

http://tangible-technology.com/power/Phantom_frying.html

Also:
http://tangible-technology.com/power/Phantom_Power_connect.html