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Topic: AC Power and Buffering pedal

I think I need to start looking into investing some money in the less-sexy aspects of signal chain engineering to give my whole sound the best tone I can from every link in the chain.
I used all fulltone cables, a 4-6 pedal board, run straight into my Komet amp.  I have always just used a basic 9v supply daisy chained or like right now I am using a gator power supply splitter thing to give me individual lines to each of my pedals powered by a basic 9v  strapped to my pedaltrain board. 
Thinking about trying the Voodoo Labs stuff.  (pedal power 2) Worth the money??
Advantages you noticed??
I use all basic boutique type pedals.  Nothing digital except maybe an occasional DD3.  Nothing complicated.  I think everything I use would fall under the "normal" category of power usage as opposed to big digital power hungry fx pedals (pods, TC Elecl, etc)

Also, I stumbled upon JHS Pedals yesterday.  Checked out their "Little Black Buffer" pedal.  Sounds really valuable for correcting the tone loss from a long multi-pedal signal chain and making a big pedal board with all pedals turned off sound damn near exactly like the guitar plugged straight in (he has a fantastic demo of this on his sight)

Im looking for recommendations or pointers for insuring that my power is all flowing the way it should be to make everything run at tip top tone.  And if there are any other pieces of hardware I should be looking into with regards to insuring the electrical foundation running my amp and pedal board to they're max potential, please lend me your thoughts

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

The Dunlop DC-Brick and T- Rex Fuel Tank (any one of the many varieties of them) are both excellent 9V power supplies with additional outputs for other voltages (18V on the DC Brick, and again, it varies with each different Fuel Tank model). Having said that, the Voodoo Labs is probably the best....if a little pricey for what it does. Hope that helps.....

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

I have the Voodoo Lap pedal power 2 got it used in new condition for $125 and it was the best thing I ever have done for my guitar tone hands down. No more hiss or weird noise, everything is clean and the sound is so crisp and clear I couldn't believe it when I plugged in the first time it was like I had all new gear. I will NEVER play with anything else. I used a one spot for Year and years never again!

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

The voodoo labs pedalpower 2 is great, but you should also check the carl martin pro power, it is cheaper and does the same thing. The Dunlop DC brick is a glorified daisy chain so no separte transformers for each output.

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

JHS LBB is a great addition to a pedal board with more than five or so pedals. Check out Cioks power supplies as well…good stuff.   http://cioks.com/index.php?option=com_c … Itemid=56l

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

Big E wrote:

I have the Voodoo Lap pedal power 2 got it used in new condition for $125 and it was the best thing I ever have done for my guitar tone hands down. No more hiss or weird noise, everything is clean and the sound is so crisp and clear I couldn't believe it when I plugged in the first time it was like I had all new gear. I will NEVER play with anything else. I used a one spot for Year and years never again!

Very useful info.  thanks

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oldgtarz wrote:

The voodoo labs pedalpower 2 is great, but you should also check the carl martin pro power, it is cheaper and does the same thing. The Dunlop DC brick is a glorified daisy chain so no separte transformers for each output.

http://www.maxguitarstore.com/store/ind … uctID=7851

I have heard of the Carl Martin brand before, but it had been a while.  I checked out their pro power like you recommended, but I don't see where its any cheaper.  They seem to both go for about $160-170.

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

I just got a power cord from Mercury Magnetics
http://www.mercurymagnetics.com/pages/c … ord-01.htm
not sure if it's hype or if it will work, but for $10 it was worth the gamble.

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

adcard wrote:

I think I need to start looking into investing some money in the less-sexy aspects of signal chain engineering to give my whole sound the best tone I can from every link in the chain.
I used all fulltone cables, a 4-6 pedal board, run straight into my Komet amp.  I have always just used a basic 9v supply daisy chained or like right now I am using a gator power supply splitter thing to give me individual lines to each of my pedals powered by a basic 9v  strapped to my pedaltrain board. 
Thinking about trying the Voodoo Labs stuff.  (pedal power 2) Worth the money??
Advantages you noticed??
I use all basic boutique type pedals.  Nothing digital except maybe an occasional DD3.  Nothing complicated.  I think everything I use would fall under the "normal" category of power usage as opposed to big digital power hungry fx pedals (pods, TC Elecl, etc)

Also, I stumbled upon JHS Pedals yesterday.  Checked out their "Little Black Buffer" pedal.  Sounds really valuable for correcting the tone loss from a long multi-pedal signal chain and making a big pedal board with all pedals turned off sound damn near exactly like the guitar plugged straight in (he has a fantastic demo of this on his sight)

Im looking for recommendations or pointers for insuring that my power is all flowing the way it should be to make everything run at tip top tone.  And if there are any other pieces of hardware I should be looking into with regards to insuring the electrical foundation running my amp and pedal board to they're max potential, please lend me your thoughts

Yes Voodoo Pedal power 2 no noise or hiss

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Re: AC Power and Buffering pedal

Gigrig.com is far superior to Voodoolabs 2 ( have 3 of those that failed pretty quickly). The gigrig is bomb proof and a lot more flexile for wiring.

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