help w Edirol UA/25 + AT 4040 mic

[tpascale]

I'm new to this forum and a novice at recording. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

I own an Edirol UA-25, and have succesfully recorded my digitial piano by connecting the piano audio out to the Edirol's mic inputs on front. Recently I purchased a pair of AT 4040 mics to record an acoustic piano, but when I plugged them into the Edirol it didn't pick up the sound. The cable is XLR on the mic side, and 1/4" plug on the Edirol side. I have set the "phantom power" switch on the Edirol to on and restarted the computer.

Is this supposed to work or do I need to get separate pre-amps for the mics ? Am I supposed to use a different cable (XLR on both ends) ?

[richiebee]

Chances are good that the Edirol interface will only send phantom power through its XLR connection, so yeah, try a cable that has XLR on both ends.

...and just so you know for the future, you won't need to reboot when you activate phantom power.

You don't need separate pre-amps for the mics.

[tpascale]

Many thanks, that did the trick !