Battery vs Power supply

[subversion]

greetings fellow pedal pushers, thought i'd get some feedback from you.

do you prefer batteries or power supply for your pedals? perhaps you can account for your preference. if you have any tips pertaining to this topic or negative experiences, it'd be a good anecdote for us. thanks (in advance) for participating in the survey...

PS: the reason why this thread is @ the Kopi-Tiam section- should i start this at the GUITAR section then it'd be excluding the bass players out there who do employ pedals in their set up too, yes?

 

[theliverevolution]

Power Supply for me.
My main reason is because quite a number of my pedals require me to take the pedal out of my board and unscrew the bottom in order to take out the battery, which is very troublesome for me.
Also, I'm just lazy to keep buying batteries ever so often

 

[dudelove]

Pedals like treble boosters, germanium fuzzes are better off with batteries, cheap non alkaline batteries

Simply because using a power supply compromises the performance of the pedal. Some fuzzes are reverse polarity, so they cannot share a power source with another pedal. Also a power jack can add noise and hum.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

I don't use pedals much, but when I do, it's gotta be power supply. Some pedals seem to suck battery life like nobody's business...

 

[teleplayer]

like delay pedals...........

 

[van_halen]

power supply, because batteries expire and are too leceh to keep replacing.

 

[superpotato_30]

For convenience sakes, power supply will do it for me.

 

[carboxymoron]

Yeah, definitely power supply. Many pedals don't even take batteries nowadays to save space and due to higher current draw.

 

[sabhains]

Power supply for me. Had some bad experience with using pedals and batteries..
http://soft.com.sg/forum/guitar-rookie-corner/127964-battery-died-too-fast.html

 

[van_halen]

Power supply for me. Had some bad experience with using pedals and batteries..
http://soft.com.sg/forum/guitar-rookie-corner/127964-battery-died-too-fast.html

did you get your pedal fixed under warranty?

 

[Godspeed64]

I prefer power supplies. Keep hearing about fuzzes and batteries. Tried to A/B having batteries on then using a power supply, not much audible difference, perhaps only o 0.00000000002 % change. So I'll stick to a PSU with isolated inputs!

Initially used the One Spot, totally died on me 3 years back. Changed to a Fuel Tank Jr and that was spectacular. No noise at all. Now upgraded to a CIOKS Shizophrenic with it's versatility.

 

[sabhains]

did you get your pedal fixed under warranty?

I didn't have it fixed, though I did bring it back to the shop for a 1 to 1 exchange about 2 days after I bought it.. but they saw nothing wrong with it.
Anyway, I'm still using the pedal.. only now with a power supply. So far no problems yet.

 

[van_halen]

I didn't have it fixed, though I did bring it back to the shop for a 1 to 1 exchange about 2 days after I bought it.. but they saw nothing wrong with it.
Anyway, I'm still using the pedal.. only now with a power supply. So far no problems yet.

so you got a new piece and it still drains battery fast?

 

[subversion]

the primary consideration for us pedal geeks is that some of our pedals are battery eaters- they don't last as long as we'd like it to be with batteries.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

Like my Line 6 Uber Metal. Drained a brand-new 9V battery in what. Half an hour?

 

[van_halen]

digital pedals eat batteries like no tomorrow. analog pedals are much better.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

digital and analog doesnt decide whether its high battery consumption, its the circuit design that determined it.

There are a lot of analog pedals which doesnt even use battery, but needed its own power supply(

Lotsa mentioned of the battery loving folks in here prolly only using much gain/drive pedals which are low power circuit, thus able to use battery.

Seriously, outside the gain drive pedals, in term of modulation based effect, using battery, is just plain silly, its prolly not going to last long and thats if it even using battery at all.

 

[subversion]

There are a lot of analog pedals which doesnt even use battery, but needed its own power supply

...especially those running on >9V power.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

It would be so much easier and convenient if all pedals ran on 9V power...

 

[Godspeed64]

Well 18V can provide more headroom. Try those Fulltones at 18V. It makes a BIG difference.
Plus, some pedals need higher voltage to be internally stepped up to push tubes.