Please Help evaluate this set up.

[Athos56]

I'm looking at getting decent low cost recording gear for field recordings, basicly both abient nature and street recordings to go along with my street photography. After about a day of net crawling here is what I'm looking at; a Sony MZ-RH910, a Sound Devices Mp-1 preamp, a Nady CM-2S stereo mic and a Nady SCM-1000 mic. Ok the why's, I picked the MZ-RH910 because from what I can see all of the Sony MD recorders record at the same 16 bit/44.1 uncompressed format, so why not buy the cheapest. The extra fetures that the Mz-m10 or Mz-rh10 give you don't do not effect recording quality. My main area of confusion is with the preamp and Mic's. My selections appear to be sufficient quality for what I want but all of the tech spec's are driving me nuts, dbs, dbu, dbv, signal to noise, oms, impedence...

From what I can see this set up should work for recording clear low noise recordings, am I wrong? Could some one who knows this stuff at a glance tell me if this gear will work together well? Any help would be great. Thanks

[A440]

Just looking at the specs, the Nady CM-2S warns against using phantom power with the mic, and the Sound Devices Mp-1 provides phantom power. Before you use them together, you need to see if there's a way to switch OFF phantom power from the preamp but still get the amplification.

[Athos56]

Just looking at the specs, the Nady CM-2S warns against using phantom power with the mic, and the Sound Devices Mp-1 provides phantom power. Before you use them together, you need to see if there's a way to switch OFF phantom power from the preamp but still get the amplification.

Thanks for the reply, the Mp-1 does have an off setting for the Phantom power. It says the Phantom power is provided but it doesn't say anything about it being required for amplification, I'll have to check that.

Thanks.

Pablo