What is the absolute cheapest phantom powered mic pre you’ve ever seen? I need a half or 1U unit for my talkback mic. Sound quality completely irrelevant. I don’t even care if it distorts.
I don’t know if it’s the cheapest but it could be the smallest. I’m talking about the CEntrance MicPort Pro. One single preamp for XLR only. It’s USB powered though, I don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for. They are running $200 now per the link below. Very small and handy, phantom power, headphone out, input level knob, headphone level knob, etc. About the size of a large cigarette lighter.
rack mountable? does it need to be a preamp and phantom power supply? What are you feeding this into?
Art Tube MP, last saw it for $39.99.
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Doesn’t have to be
Yes. But not a very good one.
That $13 Neewer condenser mic off Ebay…the one you told me about? Its going strait into the back of an HD i/o and sits in PT as a channel with a disabled record arm button. I activate the talkback via a control surface assignable key on the console.
Does anyone know of a functional preamp about half that price? Doesn’t have to sound good at all. It literally just has a make sound.
…right now I’m running into a Behringer mixer, then since it doesn’t have XLR out, I’m running it into a direct box and converting it to an XLR…the Behringer mixer is incredibly inconvenient and eating up way too much space on my rack.
hmm. That mic can be powered off of a bias power source (plugin-in power) if you use the XLR->1/8" cable that came with it, but I don’t see any dedicated plug-in power units anywhere. You may want to search for something that is geared toward headsets instead of pro-audio.
I think the main issue here is that nobody makes a preamp in that format for such a price? Seems strange. You would think that there’d be some chinese manufacturer making these rack mounted cheap as possible units.
ooh. what if you got something like this? https://www.amazon.com/ammoon-Karaoke-Sound-Mixer-Inputs/dp/B01EFVFGGC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1516896713&sr=8-7&keywords=mic+mixer
That’s made for karaoke mics, so I don’t know if those mic inputs supply any bias power (I’m guessing they don’t?), but maybe the karaoke world is a good place to look.