Hmm ... didn't think of that. Voice control? "Phaser - ON!". Could be tricky to weave it into the lyrics so the audience doesn't catch on.
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How do you feel about pedals that DO NOT take batteries?
- Thread starter bongomania
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Bluetooth from a tablet attached to the headstock or with controls buried in the fretboard/neck
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The voice of experience?One place you should never keep a 9V battery is in your front pants pocket with coins… because you will soon have some wacky dance moves on stage.
-Frank
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That's why we need some young hotties onstage on the exercise bikes, powering our pedalboards, while our feet are free to artistically switch things on and off.
I run pedals only with AC. There always AC at venues. Not buying a lot of batteries to power my pedals, not worrying about back up batteries, not worrying about a dying battery while on stage.
Also I never had an issue of hissing/buzzing before due to AC power.
So that's my point. I'm very happy with my OneSpot and his extension to power more than a pedal, is little and light.
Also I never had an issue of hissing/buzzing before due to AC power.
So that's my point. I'm very happy with my OneSpot and his extension to power more than a pedal, is little and light.
I had a behringer pedal supply that generated all kinds of noise in my pedals and preamps. I haven't had an issue since going with more reputable brands.
Or you could be taking your tone very seriously.
A guitar player in one of my old bands has a Snarling Dogs wah pedal and the ONLY way he could get a quiet signal from it was by running it on battery power.
The guitar player in one of my other bands has a Zvex pedal that he could ONLY run on battery. Even his VooDoo PS couldn't tame the hiss from that pedal and battery power reduced the hiss significantly.
I have played some venues where I have had to run battery power to eliminate the 60 and 120Hz hum. I have also had to deal with fridge/freezer compressors and light dimmer circuit and battery power has really helped in those situations. I started keeping a 9V in each pedal just for those noisy situations. It was a simple solution to just remove the power plug from each pedal and run on battery for the night. At the end of the show I would plug the power plugs back into the pedals to break the battery connections. I viewed keeping batteries in my pedals like the airbags in my vehicle... I hoped that I wouldn't ever need to use them, but I was thankful that they were there.
My tone never suffered with using batteries.
-Frank
Battery power is usually cleaner than wallwart power.
The ultimate test for me is the single JFET buffer/booster I built for my passive bass. There's no filtering in the circuit so if the pedal is noisy, that noise is amplified slightly by the circuit and passed directly on to the input to the amp.
