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View Poll Results: How Essential is it to have Batteries in an Effects Pedal? | |
Completely
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Not at all
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06-10-2011, 02:03 PM
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Endorsing Artist/Product Line Manager: Source Audio Effects | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | | How Essential Are Batteries To Effects Pedals?
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I've got a question for all of the effects aficionados on Talkbass. How essential is it to have batteries in your effects pedal?
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06-10-2011, 02:08 PM
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06-10-2011, 02:08 PM
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06-10-2011, 02:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | | You mean as opposed to a power cord or...
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06-10-2011, 02:11 PM
| | | | they are only important if you want to use them for more than door stops, paper weights or something to throw at the singer |
06-10-2011, 02:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central MA. | | | Really??? |
06-10-2011, 02:20 PM
|  | yiffffffTASTIC | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: California | | | urrrrrrr....... useless? if you're asking "do you run your pedals off of a power supply or batteries" that is.
if you mean does a voltage supply help or not..... then..... ur. humph. |
06-10-2011, 04:12 PM
|  | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | | I would almost say "None at all" but there are a few efx I keep batteries in for the occasional use, all my regularly used pedals are on power supplies to help save the planet.
Eric Johnson otoh, well no need to go there....... |
06-10-2011, 04:44 PM
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Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by M Sterling  | +1
I'll use em in a pinch but If I can power everything off a powersupply or daisy chain,...I prefer it.
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06-10-2011, 04:48 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | It depends on the pedal. Obviously, a 60's fuzz face is going to sound great with a dying non alkaline (vintage style) battery, because that's what it was designed to be used with. Allmann Brothers! Most modern effects will do fine on an alkaline battery or standard power supply. |
06-10-2011, 04:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | How essential? Not at all. I use a 1spot and a daisy chain. I have adapters for various kinds of applications. If the pedal has no input for a power supply I have an adapter for my 1spot that has 9v battery style plugs on it, so I can use that instead.
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06-10-2011, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: O'Fallon, IL | | | No need for batteries. If the power goes out, you ain't playin' anyway.
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06-10-2011, 05:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | | The only thing I use batteries in is for a/b pedals and tbp loops where the only thing being powered is an LED, because I don't want to waste the daisy chain spot for a stupid LED. Other than that, they're useless. |
06-10-2011, 05:55 PM
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Mojo FunkBasses | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Somewhere in Arizona | | | The only pedal I use is a wah (Ibanez Screaming Demon), but I keep a 9v in it in case I kick the adapter cord out. Other than that, all my stuff is racked.
I do play wireless, so those batteries are always fresh.
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06-10-2011, 06:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dallas, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Olson It depends on the pedal. Obviously, a 60's fuzz face is going to sound great with a dying non alkaline (vintage style) battery, because that's what it was designed to be used with. Allmann Brothers! Most modern effects will do fine on an alkaline battery or standard power supply. | You can build a voltage regulator that simulates the dying battery effect for very cheap and very little time. |
06-10-2011, 06:07 PM
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Accessories Sales Associate, Guitar Center Rancho Cucamonga, CA | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Upland, California | | | Batteries are useless for me in everything I own except my active bass (but it has an active/passive switch in it for when the battery decides to die). Mainly because a great deal of the effects I own, or have owned in the past, will not work on batteries. I've since gotten used to running everything off of power adapters because it's kind of silly to run one or two effects off an adapter, and everything else off of bateries. |
06-10-2011, 06:09 PM
| | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Olson It depends on the pedal. Obviously, a 60's fuzz face is going to sound great with a dying non alkaline (vintage style) battery, because that's what it was designed to be used with. Allmann Brothers! Most modern effects will do fine on an alkaline battery or standard power supply. | Quote:
Originally Posted by mynameisjack2 You can build a voltage regulator that simulates the dying battery effect for very cheap and very little time. | There is some validity to voltage starving pedals but it's EZ to build or buy a variable power supply.
The few batteries I have to use are all rechargeable 9v, AA or AAA and i always recycle older C & D cell batteries. |
06-10-2011, 06:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Oracle, Arizona | | | Battery design has much improved since the 60's or 70's. They don't leak when they die off, so it really doesn't matter IMO. If you have them put them in. A 9v has six little "sub-batteries" inside so the seal is pretty darn good. But different effects drain at different rates and have different needs for both voltage & current. It may be to the advantage of the user to use a 'wall-wort" to maintain a constant level of current.
The Lithium batteries for smoke alarms have a very low level of both & although they may last; they are weak from the start. THOSE might be a good choice for an old fuzz pedal... |
06-10-2011, 06:12 PM
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Manufacturing: Pedals, Cables, Instruments. | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Oregon | | | Some of our pedals do not contain room for batteries. The Quasar DLX for example, does not have room for a battery. I dunno, its cheap to go out and get a pedal power or one spot and a daisy chain.
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06-10-2011, 06:42 PM
|  | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | Eff batteries in the ay.
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