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How do You power your pedals?

#3
I use a homemade battery pack, 16 AA Sanyo eneloop batteries, gives me all the 9v juice I need for like 9-10 pedals. You can simply add new plugs and/or setup new voltage configurations as needed, but, yeah, helps a whole lot if your board is simple voltage wise...
 
#5
I use two "One Spot" wall-warts with miltiple leads. All my pedals are 9v, so it works fine for me. I also run a Digitech Vocalist Live 2 (on the floor next to my board) from my board's two power strips, and that has its own wall-wart.
 
#7
skulletwhip said:
I use an SKB ps45 powered board. 8 9v plugs and 3 spaces for wall warts. I dig it.
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+1 on this board. i really liked having the extra wall wart. i got rid of mine after a while though. i really like the routing capabilities with pedaltrain boards. im using a 1 spot now. for 7 pedals. will be 8 soon. i dont like the pedal power's and other similar power supplies because they dont provide enough milliamps for some of my pedals that are 200-300 milliamps. or atleast thats what reading the spec's tells me.
 
#10
Strikebass said:
Guys please forgive my deep ignorance, could you tell me the functions of those 2 pedals at the left, and what a line selector does?
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They are expression pedals of some sort. They either control a wah effect, the overall volume, or they plug into another effect unit to control some other parameter.

The line selector is sort of what its name says...it switches between (or mixes) two different signal paths.
 
#11
Yea one on left is currently volume. Sometimes it's my expression pedal. The white one is a bass wah. The LS-2 let's me bypass all effects Incase something goes haywire. Or for tone retention. Or I can blend my clean with the dirty. It also allows me to click pedals before I need them they may be hard to reach. And then stop a easy to reach pedal
 
#12
I also use a 1 spot for about 9 things plus the 24v adapter that came with the Q Tron as well as the plug on my old TC chorus that is wired right into the pedal. So there are three things plugged into an extension chord with three plug-ins on the end.

+1 for a true bypass pedal. I use this to get the digital effects completely out of the patch when I am not using them. Somehow, they seem to change my sound when they are not supposed to be.

bass > Aguilar TLC Comp > OC-2 > HardWire Tube Overdrive > In-Line Dual Distortion >Holy Grail Rvb > Q-Tron+ > Loooper (bypass) > Boss PH-3 > DD-7 > Looper(rtn) > Fulltone Fat Boost > TC Chorus/Flanger
 
#16
Hum and other issues are NOT common in a properly designed common ground daisy chain. Don't believe the hype.

In fact, when tested, the 1Spot is as quite as a VooDoo PP2. It's also cheaper, more powerful and works anywhere in the world with out the need for voltage conversion. It's why it's used buy so many world touring pros, including me.
 
#17
And now I have a m87 compressor coming in. I love that my tuner uses a battery and it doesn't drain it even when left plugged in. Is the same true for EHX pedals? Because I have found the batteries in them are still good after being left plugged in.
 
#18
Got2SadowskyNYC said:
Hum and other issues are NOT common in a properly designed common ground daisy chain. Don't believe the hype.

In fact, when tested, the 1Spot is as quite as a VooDoo PP2. It's also cheaper, more powerful and works anywhere in the world with out the need for voltage conversion. It's why it's used buy so many world touring pros, including me.
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I have had hum and noise issues with daisy chaining, conveniently I can simply move the offending pedals onto a different outlet on the pp2. Not all pedals make noise, but it's nice to have a silver bullet for if they do.
 
#19
I run 10 pedals off my Voodoo Labs PP2 even though it only has 8 9v outputs.

My Planet Waves tuner has a power in and power out for daisy chaining. I think most pedal tuners have that (Boss definitely does). Makes sense since the tuner is only engaged when the rest of the board is not in use. Turn the tuner off and it's power shifts over to the next pedal (a Pork Loin in my case). So that 9 pedals taken care of.

The Voodoo Labs also has a courtesy outlet up to a max of 200 watts ... Can easily handle a power strip with multiple adapters. A 24v adaptor drawing 300mA is only 7.2 watts. My 10th pedal goes there. I just needed an outlet extension to access it since my Voodoo is installed on a PedalTrain2 ... I'll post pics later to demonstrate the issue I had.
 
#20
Unrepresented said:
Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2+. Been powering my board for a few years without failure, and with tremendous adaptability. It's small, it's convenient, and I don't have issues with hum or other noises common in daisy chains.
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I've been using a Fueltank Chameleon to power my board for a few years to the same effect. All 9V exept Tonehammer pre at 18V, no problems at all and dead quiet.
 

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