Electronic – How to measure microphone output impedance

To answer your original question, it's extremely unlikely that any microphone and any microphone preamp would damage each other. Just go ahead and try it.

It'll be easier to correct any frequency response problems that arise from mismatch issues in the digital domain than to try to do it with the low-level analog signal from the microphone.

To answer your question directly, yes. That device, most generally, is called an amplifier.

The effect, in your situation, of just connecting the microphone/radio anyway (without an amplifier) will be that your microphone will appear to be much less sensitive than you expect.

However, you can't hurt anything, so you should just try it. You might be surprised with how well it works (e.g. good enough). There are a few things working in your favor:

• Good radio transceivers (especially in aerospace) use an auto-gain/leveling function on their mic inputs, which may compensate the lower input level.

• Professional (expensive) microphones use larger elements and are typically much more sensitive than "standard" elements that the inputs are designed to handle.

• The output impedance may be specified based on maximum compatibility rather than actual hardware impedance.

...so, yeah, you should just try it first.