Canon XL1 - 48v Phantom mic

[Pelusa]

Hi,

I have a camera Canon XL1 with the Ma-100 adapter and a microphone that needs phantom 48V.
Is possible to arm a source with batteries for this microphone? How ?

Thanks,

[Eric Toline]

Arm a source? You'll need either a 48v phantom supply or a mixer that supplys 48v phantom.

I think that beachtek now has an adaptor unit that does supply 48v phantom. www.beachtek.com.

Regardless, your best bet for control of levels going the camera would be to use a mixer. You can probably rent one at your local film/video supply house.

Eric

[jayrose]

Rolls and Denecke both make small phantom adapters.

It's also shouldn't be hard to modify the Canon adapter with a couple of caps, well-matched resistors, and two 22v batteries.

However, with your camera you'd be better off (in terms of noise and distortion) using an external mixer or preamp. and then coming in either -10 dBV line level through the mini or -35 dBV through the RCAs.