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I'm talking to a guy for getting this behringer unit
And he send me some pictures but I realized this 'weird thing' that he connected one of the outputs to the inserts of this m audio with the phantom power on and when I told him that this might damage the unit he replied it won't. Is this true? I don't want get this unit and see it's failed because of this just by the odds that it can, what will be your comments?

 

Last edited: Oct 4, 2025

Phantom Power usualy is designed to feed the XLR inputs{balanced inputs} on your mixing table/soundcard with 12 V or 48 V,for some mics do need phantom power to work.
As far as i know there will be no voltage send to the XLR outputs,and defenately not to the JACK{unbalanced} inputs/outputs.
So if the M audio receives on the Jack inputs,it will do no harm.If M Audio will receive on the XLR inputs,i dont know if it could harm.

 

Last edited: Oct 4, 2025

No damage done, the phantom power cancels itself out being +48 on hot and -48 on cold.
/edit/ that btw ist why phantom power won't blast your dynamic microphone.
(While T-Power did)

 

The situation is that the 'behringer's output' might receiving the phantom power from 'm audio's input' (it will not ?)
and that was my whole worry
*Becuase I don't know anything about voltage and current flow at all *

So it's still ok and no damage ?

 

Absolutely. No matter what, a microphone input with phantom power always uses a symmetrical socket.
So at the other end of your xlr cable those two out of phase signals have to be merged.
at that stage noise from electromagnetic interference and phantom power ist going to be canceled out.
it gets tricky when you use xlr to cinch cables. the way those are pinned out you get 48v on the pin and thats something most consumer grade devices don't like.
But XLR-XLR no problem.

 

One another question if I connect these gears in these order
Will still be ok and working ? I want to add effects to the mic before being connected to my soundcard but as I figured out this behringer multi effect has no phantom power for the mic. What can I do in this scenario !?

Condenser mic(Rode NT1a) ≥ this behringer unit using its compressor ≥ Soundcard with phantom power on
can I recrord the vocals with effects and using the soundcard's phantom in the end ??

 

- The Behringer will NOT transmit P48 from the soundcard to its inputs.
- It is a line level device not meant to have a mic directly connected.

I think a digital compressor is not the best option to be used at the recording stage.

 

Thanks to everybody I got all of questions answered.