oldskoolstreet
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"Noise" from pedalboard is very annoying. When the overall power output suffers, unwanted noise can ruin your perfect pedalboard setup. Your regular modulation/EQ pedals need about 100 mA each, whereas sophisticated distortion boxes, mammoth-sized digital delay/looper stompboxes can consume up to 700mA alone. Boss, Ibanez, Roctron, One Spot style adapters can give uniform 9 volts output, with max current 1500mA for up to 10 regular pedals.
Now, you need to make sure one thing:
Required Total current on Pedalboard is Less Than Total Pedalboard Available Current
If you can't ensure that, it is when you start to hear a swarm of bees buzzing fiercely through your set up.
Your Boss style adapter or Pedalboard brick power unit may go into a chaotic mode by trying to power up everything. So then you run into weird sound from the board without being able to determine the culprit.
OneSpot or Boss parallel daisy chained power adapters work best with pedals that demand the most mA current on your board. So you can hook up 1 -3 pedals which have extreme requirements to that adapter. The majority of the pedals with minimum current (mA) requirement can then be supported by any isolated DC brick supply you have got. To mention a few, it could be any one of these: CIOKS, Decibel Eleven HotStone, Voodoo Labs, Dunlop DC brick etc.
You are safer by running 2 different sources to power everything up so that there are tonnes of remaining Power juice left, not "killing" your power source after all.
Hope that helps. Cheers!
Now, you need to make sure one thing:
Required Total current on Pedalboard is Less Than Total Pedalboard Available Current
If you can't ensure that, it is when you start to hear a swarm of bees buzzing fiercely through your set up.
Your Boss style adapter or Pedalboard brick power unit may go into a chaotic mode by trying to power up everything. So then you run into weird sound from the board without being able to determine the culprit.
OneSpot or Boss parallel daisy chained power adapters work best with pedals that demand the most mA current on your board. So you can hook up 1 -3 pedals which have extreme requirements to that adapter. The majority of the pedals with minimum current (mA) requirement can then be supported by any isolated DC brick supply you have got. To mention a few, it could be any one of these: CIOKS, Decibel Eleven HotStone, Voodoo Labs, Dunlop DC brick etc.
You are safer by running 2 different sources to power everything up so that there are tonnes of remaining Power juice left, not "killing" your power source after all.
Hope that helps. Cheers!
