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Pedal Power Supply Recommendation??

#23
I have mostly 9 volt pedals, and I bet most of us do, but don’t want to paint myself into “ non 12 volt,” , “ non 15 volt,”, etc.
And don’t forget total amperage when you’re looking. You may not like your synergy with your first choice or first purchased pedals. Maybe there is another ps as versatile as the dc7:::I just haven’t found it yet.

I have 3 large boards and one small one:: just trying to share my experience, if not my mistakes.
 
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zacharybass76 said:
All I have are 9v pedals. Would this be overkill?
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"All I have are 9v pedals"..

...yeah, today :)

As soon as you get that compressor that needs 18v you'll wish you had it! It's definitely not overkill, as each output runs at 9,12,15,or 18volts. It's just more options for future expandability.
 
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JohnnyBottom said:
Eventide Powermax is working great for me. mounts under a nano, powers an Olympic mkIII and more.
Seems identical to the well spoken of DC7. I think $30 diff in price when I bought it.
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The Eventide is a fantastic option as well, I have two of them. The only real difference is that the Cioks DC7 has a 24v output that will power expansion power supplies (like the DC4) and you won't have to have a seperate AC power source for it.
 
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jeffb28451 said:
I have mostly 9 volt pedals, and I bet most of us do, but don’t want to paint myself into “ non 12 volt,” , “ non 15 volt,”, etc.
And don’t forget total amperage when you’re looking. You may not like your synergy with your first choice or first purchased pedals. Maybe there is another ps as versatile as the dc7:::I just haven’t found it yet.

I have 3 large boards and one small one:: just trying to share my experience, if not my mistakes.
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This. Especially for me, the total amperage. With my TrueTone CS6, I was limited to 1.6 amps (1600 mA) at 9 volts. The Cioks DC7 produces 48 watts of power, which works out to 5.333 amps (5333 mA) at 9 volts. I sometimes run 3 different 500 mA pedals, plus a few 100 mA pedals, so I basically outgrew my CS6. I won't outgrow the Cioks. And even if I do, there are 24 watt expansions as mentioned above, you can connect that up the power by another 50%.

OP, yes, it may be overkill ... Add up the amps that your pedals require and compare it to the output of any power supply you're considering, and see what you think. Also think about the future though, unless you're absolutely sure your pedal acquisition days are over.

Whatever you decide, best wishes! So long as you choose a quality isolated supply that you've put some good thought into, I think you'll be fine.
 
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zacharybass76 said:
All I have are 9v pedals. Would this be overkill?
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For now, sure. But you'll never have to figure out how to power some future pedal. All I need was 9v when I got my DC-7, but then I had the option of running a Diamond BCJ at 18v (it sounded better) and getting a 12v, high draw Shift Line Olympic pedal without having to think hard about how I would power it.
 
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#32
I have a Voodoo Labs but I bought cheap from Amazon called Hiree - with 7 9 volt outlets and a higher current 9 volt, a 12v and an 18v, plus 4 ac - receptacles. It is good for home use - I mean maybe also for gigging but the thing is plastic. It is much better than the one spot with daisy chain or the boss daisy PSU by a mile. I have loaded the thing to the hilt including the AC receptacle (14 pedals and modular synths and those little korg volca units ) and it did not melt or overheat. Aside from the plastic body the only thing I hate is that each outlet has a blue LED, so I just painted them. I bought this in 2017 and sometimes it will be on for a week because I just forget. Even when fully used, each outlet gives a stable volt reading. I am really surprised. Some of the MXR and Source Audio pedals will not power on if you use a One-Spot and you connect something else. not on this unit. Only one Strymon reverb unit needs to be on the higher current 9 volt. I think I paid 30+
 
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When I was building my board I almost used the Cioks but glad I ended up using the voodoo labs. I have a boomerang looper and it uses a different size DC barrel with a wall wart style ac plug and some weird voltage. I don’t think the Cioks would have worked for it, I ended up using the little spare ac socket on the voodoo labs.
 
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As many have mentioned, just get the CIOKS DC-7. I went through this process and went with the voodoo labs PP2+ and eventually regretted it. It's probably fine if you just stay with analogue pedals but if you end up getting some digital pedals, you'll need more power. The CIOKS can handle a lot more and with the way pedal technology has been heading, you're going to want to go digital.
 
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N4860 said:
As many have mentioned, just get the CIOKS DC-7. I went through this process and went with the voodoo labs PP2+ and eventually regretted it. It's probably fine if you just stay with analogue pedals but if you end up getting some digital pedals, you'll need more power. The CIOKS can handle a lot more and with the way pedal technology has been heading, you're going to want to go digital.
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Out of curiousity what did you regret about the voodoo? I have the PP2+ and the little x4 one for two different boards. The little guy right now is powering my gt1000core, two darkglass ultras, a Hyper Luminal compressor and Harmonic Booster. Using a splitter for the DG ultras with no problem.
 
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Nuage420 said:
Out of curiousity what did you regret about the voodoo? I have the PP2+ and the little x4 one for two different boards. The little guy right now is powering my gt1000core, two darkglass ultras, a Hyper Luminal compressor and Harmonic Booster. Using a splitter for the DG ultras with no problem.
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The PP2+ was absolutely fine for me until I started moving to digital pedals that needed more power. My initial board had stuff like darkglass ultra, darkglass duality, empress compressor, rat, sansamp bddi, etc. It worked fine, but then I moved onto an almost all digital pedal board featuring a bunch of source audio pedals and still my darkglass vintage ultra and empress compressor. Here's an old pic from last year:
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I have no issues with digital pedals, I just really like the idea of being able to change the settings of nearly all of my pedals with 1 button through the midi capability of my digital pedals. And the source audio pedals really do sound great so it's not like I feel like I'm compromising by going digital.
 
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N4860 said:
The PP2+ was absolutely fine for me until I started moving to digital pedals that needed more power. My initial board had stuff like darkglass ultra, darkglass duality, empress compressor, rat, sansamp bddi, etc. It worked fine, but then I moved onto an almost all digital pedal board featuring a bunch of source audio pedals and still my darkglass vintage ultra and empress compressor. Here's an old pic from last year:
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I have no issues with digital pedals, I just really like the idea of being able to change the settings of nearly all of my pedals with 1 button through the midi capability of my digital pedals. And the source audio pedals really do sound great so it's not like I feel like I'm compromising by going digital.
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Nice! I've been looking at ciock stuff. If these start to fail me I'll give them a shot for sure. You've got a few pedals I want to try
 
#40
I have a cioks and a trutone

Cioks cables are odd.

Trutone has I think one of the supplies that is 18v and I don’t have any 18v pedals so it’s useless.

I do prefer the trutone
 

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