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Topic: Best pedal board (stomp box) power supply? |
Lefty
From:
Grayson, Ga.
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Posted 11 May 2008 8:14 am |
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I am wanting to put together a small pedal baord to use for guitar. This will be used in a band where I will be playing 80% guitar. I am looking for one of the Boss or similiar units, and would like some advice please. I believe they make one that is a tuner also?
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Lefty |
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Jerry Erickson
From:
Atlanta,IL 61723
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Posted 11 May 2008 2:17 pm
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| I like the Virtual Sound One Spot. They also make a cable that will connect to the power supply and power 5 pedals. I've actually hooked up 2 of those cables and powered 9 pedals with the one power supply. The older Boss power supplies would die from shorting cables, but hear that they've redesigned it so I'll wait and see. I've used the VS supply for probably 2 years with no problems. |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 11 May 2008 4:47 pm
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| Ditto on the One Spot. Inexpensive, reliable & totally handy. |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 11 May 2008 5:41 pm
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Tritto (Is that a word?) on the One Spot. I use one to power this pedal board I put together for steel or guitar.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Richard Chapman
From:
Saratoga, New York, USA
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Posted 11 May 2008 6:21 pm
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| The One Spot is simply the best I have seen so far. Great cable length, powerful and of course, it's not a plug hog. I have several and they all operate flawlessly and have for several years. |
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Bob Bowden
From:
Vancouver, BC, Canada * R.I.P.
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Posted 11 May 2008 6:36 pm
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| I use the Godlyke Power-All. It is essentially the same as the One Spot. 1.7 amp power supply with plenty of adapters. |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 12 May 2008 3:18 pm
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| I use the boss pedal tuner TU2 with a small daisy chain wire and it powers all my pedals. Steelers tend to like more precise tuners like the Peterson strobo flip, but for a six stringer, the boss is a great little stompbox tuner/power supply. Ten years old, a couple tours, lotsa beeer spilled on it and going strong still. |
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Alex McCollough
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 12 May 2008 5:21 pm
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I'm a big fan of the VooDoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus.
It's not cheap, but it will power ANYTHING. Plus, it has an AC jack (which I use for the Steel Guitar Black Box).
As a side note, if you order the proper cable from VooDoo Labs (a custom cable that costs about $15) you can also power a Hilton volume pedal.
It also has a pretty cool "dying battery" pot on two of the power jacks, which really works well with a fuzz pedal.
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 12 May 2008 5:26 pm
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| + eighty million for the Pedal Power! I've got one on my small pedalboard, and I love it. |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 12 May 2008 6:23 pm
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Darvin,What make is your pedalboard? Looks compact for 4 effects.  |
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Mitch Adelman
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 13 May 2008 5:49 am
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| I'm with Alex about the Voodoo Labs Pedal power. It delivers a great full, filtered, quiet, steady power supply. I've used the one spot and like it for a few pedals but when I got above 5 or six it didn't seem to deliver the full power or sound of some of my pedals. Its now for home practice only. The Pedal power ain't cheap but it has never failed. Plus that AC is great for my black box too!I've had a one spot burn out once on me from a low voltage club( I won't say flimsy but it must only weight a gram!) For the money the one spot is great but the PedalPower is way more versatile and truck tough! |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 13 May 2008 7:38 am
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Kenny, I couldn't find a pedal board like I wanted, so I built my own. Here are some better pictures, taken right after I finished it. I changed a couple of the pedals after these were taken, I now use a ProCo RAT distortion, an Electro Harmonix Nano Small Stone for phase, a Boss CH-1 for chorus, and a Boss RV-3 for reverb and/or delay. I patch in the volume pedal after the distortion, and if I want to use it with a guitar, the VP patch is normalled through. I have parallel outputs also. The power supply stows in the lid, held in place with a velcro strap. It works nice.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 13 May 2008 6:29 pm
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| Darvin,That is really nice. Even run the wiring underneath the deck. |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 14 May 2008 7:44 am
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Yep, I like them clean and neat. As you can see, I also tied down the pedals with zip ties. Velcro doesn't work well for very long.
Here's my guitar pedal board I set up similarly.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 14 May 2008 6:02 pm
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Darvin, Did you build this guitar pedalboard also?  You should send me your secret to building those great pedalboards. |
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ray qualls
From:
Baxter Springs, Kansas (deceased)
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Posted 14 May 2008 6:26 pm
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Here's a pic of mine. I got it thru a music store in Joplin. They sell them thru Musicians Friend also. You get all the short cords and power supply included.
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Ray Qualls
Member(KSGA)
Inducted into KSGA
Steel Guitar Hall of Fame 2008 |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 14 May 2008 6:32 pm
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| Hi Ray, I have one just like yours. I'm glad they made a power supply with more milliamps.Of course a "one spot" is a great 2nd. |
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Mike Winter
From:
Portland, OR
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Posted 14 May 2008 7:39 pm
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What Ben Jones said...the Boss Tu-2...tuner and power supply. It does hold up to beer and whiskey spilling. 
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Gibson Hartwell
From:
Missoula, Montana, USA
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Posted 17 May 2008 6:47 am
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| Lefty, The Voodoo labs Pedal Power is pretty great. I resisted buying one for a while because of the price and messed with other things but eventually ended up justifying the cost. It has isolated power (I think thats the right term) for each output so you don't have to worry about hum or polarity issues. And it does have lots of flexibility to power just about anything you might want to plug into it. |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 18 May 2008 8:06 am
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I have an old pedal board with various individual pedals on it sitting on a shelf in my garage where it's been for the last 3 or 4 years since I got my Boss ME-50 multiple effects board. It's the easiest one I've found out there to work and program. You don't even have to program it if you don't want too as there is compressor, reverb, delay, chorus, tremolo, volume pedal, distortion, right on the top of it ready to use. All the adjustments for personal preference are knob operated so if you're right in the middle of a song and need more delay, just bend down and turn up the knob, same for distortion and the other effects.
If you do need some patches you can just click the programming button and set it up with the individual knobs (just like stomp boxes) and when you get it like you want just click it again and it's saved. It's by far the easiest one to use on the market. I noticed the last time I was in St. Louis at Scotty's that the great Canadian Tele Master Steve Pittico had one of them...........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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