the original iriver firmware provides both "external mic" and "line in" choices in the recording screen, and the unit provides phantom power to un-powered mics when the "external mic" setting is chosen.
Rockbox firmware does not offer the "external mic" setting, but rather offers "line in" and "mic," the latter being the internal microphone on the device itself.
My question is, can someone explain to me how the developers chose this route and how the powering of un-powered mics works with this unit? I have used the rockboxed h120 as a recorder both with un-powered mics and with the same mics using an external battery-box power supply with the "line-in" setting, and each worked fine. I shouldn't be able to use the mics by themselves on "line in" unless the unit is delivering phantom power to the mics with the "line in" setting, which is fine, I suppose, but I don't want that phantom power when I use my own battery box at shows; I just want a traditional analog "line in"
Am I totally missing the point here?
melon