Phantom transforms your Mac into a point-of-care ultrasound kit. It accurately captures high-quality imagery of abdominal and pelvic windows with a reliable, multi-application probe, and generates complex side-by-side measurements and calculations that can be stored and shared directly from your Mac. Jan 17, 2011  As a previous poster said, no phantom power on the Mac. There _are_ devices out there that you can 'insert' between a mic and the 'mic input' on the Mac that would provide the phantom power, but considering what they cost, it's probably a far better solution to buy an audio interface and get the additional benefits from having one.

The Problem: There is a phantom device on our network. We have a exlusion in the DHCP scope for 5 ip addresses.

192.168.0.155-200 One of our users reports that they see something on 192.168.0.159. Which they were about to use for a piece of their equipment they were installing. Sure enough, I ping the ip address and get a reply back from from the device. So, I do an ARP -A and see what MAC address it reports back with. It reports back with an almost identical mac address as on of my servers, but that last digit in the 48 bit mac address is different.

So, I do another ping form another computer and sure enough it replied back, but this time when I do an arp -a and it reports back with a MAC address of our second server but off by last digit in the mac address. Could this be a switch going bad? There is no NIC assigned this ip address or these mac addresses. Fing produced the same results.

I believe the this has to be some type of corrupted mac table on the switch. We have rebooted, but the the problem remains. Switch is pretty old. This happened one time before with the wireless access points and a firewall we had. The exact same problem, different equipment. The ip addresses we had assigned to the APs kept showing the MAC address of our firewall.

The firewall had only 1 static ip assigned and the DHCP wasn't leasing out ips in that range. So, now to think about it has to be a corrupt table/bad switch. – Feb 8 '13 at 17:32 •.

I'm looking to record my classical guitar and from what I've understood it small diaphragm condenser microphones are the way to go. They need phantom power though. Can plugging them into the line-in or usb ports provide the phantom power? Ricoh pcie sd mmc host controller driver for mac. Or is the only way to do so through pre-amps?' As a previous poster said, no phantom power on the Mac. There _are_ devices out there that you can 'insert' between a mic and the 'mic input' on the Mac that would provide the phantom power, but considering what they cost, it's probably a far better solution to buy an audio interface and get the additional benefits from having one.

Since you're a classical player, I'm sure you have a good ear, so don't get a cheap one. Important question: does your Mac have a firewire port? If you have firewire connectivity, I recommend that you shun USB-based interfaces and get a firewire-based interface. If all you have is USB, well, get what you need to get. I use an Echo AudioFire8 (which is now discontinued). However, the Echo AudioFire4 looks to be very similar (just slightly fewer inputs).

You won't go wrong with this one. If you want to spend a bit more, I've heard very nice things about the Steinberg MR816x interface, which integrates seamlessly with their Cubase digital audio production software. Others in this forum will recommend Apple's 'Logic' or 'Logic Express', but I find Cubase a better program -- very easy to learn and use, and much better than Logic in terms of 'editing capabilities'. Any interface will also work well with GarageBand, which is a good app to start out on. Mics -- well that's a whole different area altogether! You might also consider visiting gearslutz.com and seeing what other classical players have to say over there.