briomusic
Well-known member
Hi all,
I am fairly new to DIY, but have recently built (cloned) a few guitar pedals.
I think I am now ready to dip a toe into the vast ocean of diy mic pres.
To make things simpler and cheaper to begin with, I was hoping to 'borrow' the PSU from an existing piece of equipment in my studio and build a proper rack and PSU for the pre amp once I actually got it working and sounding nice.
The PSU's available to me are:
Chandler LTD-1: this one has a spare 4-way XLR to connect a second chandler box. The voltages available are +/-28 Volt and 48 Volt. Is this too high? Can I reduce the voltage using a voltage divider or will this affect the voltages on the other connector too?
Roland Rack Mixer: this one has +/-15 Volt as well as 48V Phantom.
API 500 rack: a bit hard to get too unless I build some sort of break out box/card to supply leads to the card slot at the back of the lunchbox. not my favourite idea.
This is a great board, I hope it's okay to post this here, I haven't seen any other posts where anyone attempts to do this sort of thing (maybe because it's a bad idea? if so, please tell me!)
TIA.
brio
I am fairly new to DIY, but have recently built (cloned) a few guitar pedals.
I think I am now ready to dip a toe into the vast ocean of diy mic pres.
To make things simpler and cheaper to begin with, I was hoping to 'borrow' the PSU from an existing piece of equipment in my studio and build a proper rack and PSU for the pre amp once I actually got it working and sounding nice.
The PSU's available to me are:
Chandler LTD-1: this one has a spare 4-way XLR to connect a second chandler box. The voltages available are +/-28 Volt and 48 Volt. Is this too high? Can I reduce the voltage using a voltage divider or will this affect the voltages on the other connector too?
Roland Rack Mixer: this one has +/-15 Volt as well as 48V Phantom.
API 500 rack: a bit hard to get too unless I build some sort of break out box/card to supply leads to the card slot at the back of the lunchbox. not my favourite idea.
This is a great board, I hope it's okay to post this here, I haven't seen any other posts where anyone attempts to do this sort of thing (maybe because it's a bad idea? if so, please tell me!)
TIA.
brio
