I've worked some recently at Studio G for Joel Hamilton and he's using the MC012 on toms. I've tried it before with good results but have been using RODE NTK's on toms frequently. I had an NTK in a three mic set-up some months back. The NTK was over the drummers right shoulder and the floor tom soun...

Thanks, for the response. The only thing I'm still wondering is about patching with phantom power present. I've heard this can be a potential bummer for frying the input on an incorrectly patched unit.

My question is how are the outboard mic pre's patched at EA? Do all the mic lines run to a patchbay and are then patched into the selected outboard pres? Are the Elite mic pre inputs on a patchbay too? Are the outputs of the mic pres also located on a patchbay to then go into the selected tape chann...