How do you feel about pedals that DO NOT take batteries?

[triviani]

100% agreed! The main problem with batteries is the disposal of them. I use rechargeable batteries for stuff I can't get away without, like my kitchen and bathroom scales, etc.



I actually don't. I live in downtown Helsinki so I can get around very easily using public transportation .

Cool . The point is a car pollutes much more than the random fuzz battery I change once a year. Not to mention the impact on the environment of all these phones, laptops and other gadget'o'rama we have around..

I don't use a car neither, I don't intend to have one, I recycle, use rechargeable batteries, and dispose of the old batteries properly. Please allow me to use a single battery for my fuzz!

 

[Darkglass]

Cool . The point is a car pollutes much more than the random fuzz battery I change once a year. Not to mention the impact on the environment of all these phones, laptops and other gadget'o'rama we have around..

I don't use a car neither, I don't intend to have one, I recycle, use rechargeable batteries, and dispose of the old batteries properly. Please allow me to use a single battery for my fuzz!

Haha of course my friend! Not judging anyone who thinks differently than me. And not even then, because if you dispose of your batteries properly then we're totally on the same page .

 

[moosapotamus]

I stopped putting batteries in any of my pedals years ago, for several reasons. Environmental is just one. I also do not like pedals that only use a battery and do not have a power jack. I use a pedal board with a power supply. Everything is wired up nicely. But if any pedals had batteries, I would have to pull them up and unplug input jacks to prevent the battery from draining. That would be a drag for me.

 

[Pastrami]

But if any pedals had batteries, I would have to pull them up and unplug input jacks to prevent the battery from draining. That would be a drag for me.

+1

This is honestly the worst part

 

[AaronVonRock]

I never use batteries in any of my pedals. I would also never buy a bass that needed batteries. Batteries suck.

 

[mmbongo]

I've never used a battery in a pedal, what a pain in the arse. People really do this??? Surely not.

 

[T2k5]

I have never used batteries on my pedals, and prefer saving space in the pedal design instead of adding the option for them. I can understand someone using batteries if he only has a single pedal, otherwise it's just a useless hassle.

 

[Silver Blues]

Batteries? No.

I also don't buy pedals, I build them, and having to incorporate a battery only serves to cramp the space inside the enclosure for not much gain. I built a pedal for a friend that was battery only and what a mess that was inside. I'm surprised I got the lid on the box.

 

[Dave W]

I haven't used a battery in a pedal in probably 15 years. I always run some type of power supply.

 

[father of fires]

I understand it's easier to build without them. I understand they take up space. I understand that it's bad for the environment. But I'm more likely to be jamming in my basement with a pedal or two and I prefer not to use a power supply for simple 1 pedal jams. I always bring a board with power to every gig. So short answer I prefer both.

I built one pedal without a battery and it is my least used pedal.

 

[knumbskull]

Not an issue for me. I use Diago power supplies, their cheapest one costs the same as 5-6 purchases of 9v batteries (in the UK, anyway) and outlasts that by a very large margin.

I could understand why people would use rechargeables, mind.

Also, each to their own but when's the last time you saw a pro band using batteries in their pedals?

 

[father of fires]

You could use a few D cells and get suuuuuuuper long battery life.

Also terrorists use mostly spent batteries from the trash to build IED's.

 

[Jeff Bonny]

Except maybe in a tuner, so that I can carry it and don't need to worry about also taking a power supply with me, I don't see the need for batteries.

Yes, even though most of the time I use a power supply I like the option of both in a tuner. If I were designing one it would have a rechargeable system that plugging into a power supply would keep topped up. On anything else I'd prefer not to have a battery both because it's dirty technology and I'd rather use the space to have a smaller footprint.

 

[father of fires]

More pros and cons. Batteries are a pure voltage source so they are great with noisy circuits (like cmos) but some of the noisy circuits have heavy current draw. As a hobbyist builder I'd leave it out if I knew the pedal was only ever gonna live on my board. But if I ever got of my lazy ass and built commercially I'd include a battery snap no question.

If I was truly worried about the environment I wouldn't limit my customer's convenience. I'd just build some carbon credits into the purchase price.

 

[Jeff Bonny]

If I was truly worried about the environment I wouldn't limit my customer's convenience. I'd just build some carbon credits into the purchase price.

This might be a derail but I don't really understand the true ecological benefit of carbon credits. The system seems too similar to buying indulgences from the Catholic church to absolve past sins. In both cases the true benefit seems to be the filling of coffers.

 

[gully_jones]

Having options is convenient but not a deal breaker either way.

 

[father of fires]

This might be a derail but I don't really understand the true ecological benefit of carbon credits. The system seems too similar to buying indulgences from the Catholic church to absolve past sins. In both cases the true benefit seems to be the filling of coffers.

True. You're paying someone to be green so you don't have to.

 

[eveilleu]

I put a battery in my first ever pedal, forgot to unplug after playing. Next morning all was dead. I said F*&*& it. I went out and got a boss adapter. When more pedals started to come in I started to daisy chain them, ... long story shot, when the daisy chain started to be a hassle I got a small power brick. Now, I have a nice little DC-8 under he PTJr. Feeds a cali at 18v, B7K at 12v and the others at 9. I'm super happy.

I truly don't care about the option of putting in a battery or not because I simply don't.

Actually, my aguilar octamizer was bigger then needed to have space for that battery...

 

[Nev375]

Stuart Hamm had a recent bad experience with some pedals. One was a digital multifxpedal with fresh batteries. Well, right before the show, there was a power surge which not only wiped his presets clean from the memory of the pedal, but caused a battery to explode inside in an icky mess.

Of course, he was talented enough to carry on the show without pedals whatsoever, but he said he is done with pedals and batteries now, and I don't blame him.

 

[father of fires]

Stuart Hamm had a recent bad experience with some pedals. One was a digital multifxpedal with fresh batteries. Well, right before the show, there was a power surge which not only wiped his presets clean from the memory of the pedal, but caused a battery to explode inside in an icky mess.

Of course, he was talented enough to carry on the show without pedals whatsoever, but he said he is done with pedals and batteries now, and I don't blame him.

I'm sure it happened but it doesn't make any sense. Batteries can't power surge.