If phantom power was accidentally left on will it mess up the mic? Thanks

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has experiece recording steel drums and could give me advice. I am a newbie but have done live recording with rock/blues bands but never acoustic instruments. I have 2 SP C4's and some sm57's what would be the best mic's for the job? is it better to mike the top or the bottom of the drum?

Any insight would help.

I recently bought one of these and I am very impressed. I've been playing for 40 years and never really gave Tele's a second thought, can't really say why...Anyways, this rascal has jumbo frets, and a flatter radius(9 1/2) fretboard than my two vintage Strats, and that makes ALL the difference.

I have a small home studio and I am never happy with my recordings.
I suppose everything revolves around the sound card,
so I tried a different one and different drivers,
I have used different programs and now use sonar-6,
and have even gone to a new 64 bit pc.
I guess the only thing I haven't changed is the engineer, me, LOL

For those of you who have one, do you use it much with headphones, and if so, how much improvement is it over the headphone amps in your other gear? I use Sennheiser HD280 phones.

I'm taking a pair of Yamaha MSP5 powered monitors to Warsaw from Nashville. Any advice on changing to the internal power supply so I don't have to use a transformer?

i am looking for professional quality recordings of rap vocals at an affordable price on my home pc. can somebody give me a few ideas Im looking fOR the best quality equipment to achieve my task for a reasonable price... remember this is just to record rap vocals.

I was wondering if anyone has had success or trouble multitracking onto laptops...

I'm afraid if I go out and grad a pretty nifty laptop that I will suffer horrible latency and problems actually mixing the music...(laggy / horrible performance)

I'm thinking a 2.0+ghz core 2 duo
2 gigs of ram

And can I record directly onto an external hd? too much latency?

so ive been looking for a mac for quite some time and now that i have money want to get one. So what I'm asking is their any disadvantage to getting an older g5 with the ibm processor? and if so would the 20" imac (Intel) with 1 gig ram and the 2.16ghz work well? Im running firepod and Cubase 4 but would eventually like to upgrade the interface to may a fireface.

I use Adobe Audition 2.0.

My Computer is:

Pentium 4 3.2
512 Ram
Windows Xp SP2

Recording Interface:
PreSonus Firepod
Shure SM57

I'm looking for a good program (not audicy or sound forge)

Something that would work on for everything.

I have Cubase sx3 but i havent planned on using it.

Thanks!