I have a AA battery powered Audio Technica Shotgun mic with an XLR out that I connected to a 40 foot XLR cable then to a Quarter jack and then to a mini jack which goes into my Mini Disk recorder but I cant get any sound? What am I doing wrong? doesnt the battery make it phantom powered and if not does anyone have solutions?
THX
I thought phantom powered was when the camera provides the power rather than batteries. Do I have that backwards? Either way I would think going from XLR to Quarter to mini jack would lose the ability to get power from outside the mic itself.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
Phantom power is when you have a mic that is powered from a camera or something else- the mis is without its own battery and is operating off power from what its plugged into.
1. make sure your plugging the 1/4 into the correct slot (the mic slot not the headphones slot).
2. Check out your 1/4 male end. If it has 2 black stripes on it, it's stereo. 1 black stripe = mono. (this doesn't really have anything to do with your question but I thought it might be helpful.) In the case that you're only getting sound out of oner side, aka its mono, then in editing just copy the one audio track to the 2nd.
3. Put a battery in ur shotgun mic and make sure its a new battery.
4. Also, plug the mic directly into mini disk (without the 40 ft. xlr cable to rule out the cable as defective.
Hope this helped.
