What are you using for power supply? - The guys that use a l

[carlos seo]

I'm sure that there is at least one person in this forum that doesn't like rack units and FX processors and prefer single effect pedals instead.

For these ones, I have three questions: what are you using for power supply? What do you do to prevent noise? And how do you put a tuner in this kind of setup (they can't go in the normal singal chain because they kill tone)?

Thanks!

[Pablo]

I've got a roland FC-200 foot controller but I like to use the odd stomp box too. I just use the power supply with a splitter. the FC 200 has a half power mode which I need to set to as on full power an annoying squeal starts. For my Whammy IV it's power supply since the jack size is weird. My Diaz pedal was one of the first so it's has to use batteries.

I contemplated building a rack mounted than for this but messing around with toriodial trasnformers shouldn't be done unless you REALLY know what your doing.

I seem to remember a rack product that would let you power 4-6 240Vrack units and 6-8 9V stomp boxes I think it was a Rocktron thing but at the time it was £300 which is a lot of money

I don't know what the Furman power adaptor has apart from pull out lights.

[RGA7620]

Not sure exactly what your looking for but check out Pedalboard.com they have a power box that looks pretty intresting. I plan on checking it out when i get the money up. As far as a tuner on your pedalboard you could run it through an ernie ball volume pedal its got a seperate tuner out on it so it doesnt interfear with your signal chain

[gkelm]

For power, i use a Boss PSM-5 or LS-2 with the splitter cable to the other pedals. *A good cheap option is the Signalflex, one of the best is probably the Voodoo Lab.

For my tuner, my EB volume pedal has a tuner out...works great for silent tuning and the tuner is not in-line.
Greg

[carlos seo]

About the tuner... here's my signal chain:

Guitar --> Dunlop Crybaby GCB-95 --> Ibanez TS-9 original --> Amp ---FX Send--> BOSS GE-7 --> Danelectro DE-1 *--> Morley PVO Volme ---FX Return--> Amp


What is the easiest way to connect a tuner into it? I don't want to replace my Morley PVO... it's great for volume.

Thanks

PS- Edited because I have replaced the delay pedal.


(Edited by carlos seo at 5:48 pm on April 18, 2001)

[UVmanMike]

The Voodoo Labs Pedal Power is the best power supply IMHO. It powers like 8 pedals with clean, hum-free power and is built to take a beating. For under $200, think of all of the money you would save on 9 volt batteries. Eventually it pays for itself.......

[rgr]

I use the Boss TU-2 tuner, it's the Boss stompbox tuner. *I have it as the first thing in the chain, when you turn it on it mutes the signal, turn it off and it has the same buffer circuit as all the other Boss pedals. *I can't tell any signal degradation from it. *Vai apparently can't either, he had one on the UZ tour too. *

Roger

[carlos seo]

Quote: from rgr on 4:30 pm on April 18, 2001
I use the Boss TU-2 tuner, it's the Boss stompbox tuner. *I have it as the first thing in the chain, when you turn it on it mutes the signal, turn it off and it has the same buffer circuit as all the other Boss pedals. *I can't tell any signal degradation from it. *Vai apparently can't either, he had one on the UZ tour too. *

Roger

Are you sure that Vai used it directly into his signal chain? I saw his pedalboard last year but the cables were a mess and I couldnt know if it was in the signal chain or not.

[rgr]

I'm pretty sure it was first in the chain.

[rickboot]

As Mike said, the Voodoo Power Pedal is very highly regarded power supply. I was about to order one, but I found that Pedalboard.com has one called the JuiceBox that may be better. It has ten 9VDC connections - two are reconfigurable to 13.3VDc and 18VDC (great for 535Q Crybaby wahs). It also has a *9VAC connector which you can run Line6 pedals and the like with. I am about to order one.

You can check it out here:

http://pedalboard.com/juicebox.htm

Rick