It´s not the first time you jump at me. You don´t have much knowledge regarding gigs and phantom power devices it seems. This is something I do on a more or less day to day basis professionally and I´ve worked as a music teacher, music store sales person and during the last 15 years I´ve worked as a professional sound technician. This is what I do for a living. I have a SSL console, Neve preamps, Avalon preamps, Bricasti reverbs, I own a EMT 240 reverb and a shitload (!!) of other stuff. You have to understand one thing. Phantom powering and instruments are not totally trouble free in a live concert situation. Questions regarding that?

And, NO, I won´t edit my initial post regarding this. Why? Cause I actually know what I´m talking about. You don´t. Sure, use a fucking low budget mixer if you feel like it. We are all free to do whatever we want and we can use whatever suits us regarding equipment. But I won´t go down that alley. Sound quality actually matters and a 10 channel mixer that costs 250 dollars won´t win over a 650 dollar two channel StepAbout any day of the week.Cause quality matter and sound matter. At least to me. Will I adit my post? No. I won´t. Cause I (!!) think that phantom power and active electronics in a instrument actually complicates things. Feel free to disagree. I don´t fucking care. Do whatever you want. Whatever rocks your boat. But I rather use a external power supply unit and I won´t edit my initial post. And the StepAbout is MUCH better sounding than pretty much alla low budget mixers on the planet. Again, will I edit my post? No. I won´t. Deal with it. And continue to defend Kevin. I don´t care.

Good idea. I honestly thing that a small power supply unit would be perfect for the R-Bloc. I might try to find some time to find out how many here there that might be interested one (or two) power supply units for the R-Bloc. I´ll also try to find out what´s out there already......

For a Railboard, phantom power is all the preamp you need: speaking strictly in terms of signal level. Personally, I would want more equalization capabilities than could be ergonomically mounted on/in a small enclosure. Yes, I wish a Rane PEQ-55 would fall into my lap.

Yeah that's what I had in mind but I only need it from one input because I would only really use that feature for bass or guitar. I can see that a footswitch would make more sense than a toggle switch though.

The SFX unit mentioned earlier looks nice but was too expensive when I looked at it a while ago. I tried to cheap out and got a K&K dual channel preamp but found it quite harsh and brittle with the Stickup. It works much better with acoustic guitar and even passive electric bass.

On a side note, there's been a thread going over on Talkbass with two guys designing a small pedal version of a cranked Gallien Kreuger GK700 that looks really cool for all you DIYers out there. I want to give it a go at some stage. http://www.talkbass.com/threads/gk-rail ... 67/page-30

I will be very interested to see what you come up with.

I got my Railboard for street performance because of it's durability but for passive use I prefer the sound of my undurable but very lovable poly with stickup. If I can get the active Rboard sound through a small battery powered device I will be a very happy Stickist!

Ciao for now,

Tim

Hang on a second, they are attempting to emulate the sound of a cranked solid state power amp?

Ever heard or played through one cranked? Oh man.....

For those of you with phantom power woes...

http://www.avlifesavers.com/mutesw.htm

Enjoy

That seems like a handy thing to have in some situations. But it might not help out if having to unplug the chord on the console/line-box/amp side, or? Will check it out more and see what it actually does. Thanks!

Here are a bunch of phantom power supply units.....

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Phantom-Power-Supplies/ci/15142/N/3992462814

Some runs on batteries as well so they can be used when busking.

Would like to take a moment and appologize to Robstafarian. I overreacted earlier. I still think that it was dumb to tell me that I should edit my first post regarding phantom power related issues. And I do think it´s important to talk about problems that can actually appear in some (live) situations and I do know abit what I´m talking about cause this is actually what I work with. It´s not a problem free thing as others as well wrote about in this thread. But I overreacted. I´m sorry, Robstafarian. I want to appologize to Kevin as well as I did mention him. He´s behaved lately and I´ll do my best to not let old grudge och shit come up if not necessary. That was dumb too. So sorry, mates!

//J