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Pedal board issues.

Mattyboy75

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Hi guys and gals, a little help if you can.
I have made a pedal board, see pic, and it’s not right.
It’s the not the pedal board as I have tried bypassing it but basically I get barely any volume with no pedals switched on, when I turn any pedal on I get good volume but if I put more than one on the hum and noise plus volume hike is terrible. I have also tried adjusting the volumes on the individual pedals.
The order I have them in is: tuner, wah, OD, distortion, delay, chorus and looper. Any help much appreciated. 0AA233DE-5A53-4F44-B6B3-FDE0CA372ECA.jpeg12DA787F-4840-4ED7-BEE2-4FDA5C903F08.jpeg
 

PaulD

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How are the pedals powered? Sounds like it could be a power supply issue.
 

Mattyboy75

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for getting back to me.

They are powered from a dedicated power supply. It provides 9v 100ma to all the pedals except the looper which has 9v 500ma as the manufacturers recommended.
Not all of them take batteries so I’d have to go out and buy quite a few individual power supplies or daisy chain to test.
Do you know if there is any way of testing?
 

PaulD

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Probably the best approach would be to try a process of elimination, disconnect one pedal at a time and take it out of the loop to see if one particular pedal is causing the problem.
 

Mattyboy75

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Thanks, I’ll try that. I also have a friend that has a pedal power supply, I’ll ask if I can try that and see if it makes a difference.
 

corpse

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Voodoo Pedal Power Plus- spend the scratch and make all that go away. Feel free to ask me about the cables they take- central neutral vs center +.
 

Mattyboy75

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Definitely the power supply. Thanks for the advice. Any suggests (other than the Voodoo, unless that’s definitely the one to go for), needs to do analogue and digital pedals. Thanks in advance again.
 

corpse

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Definitely the power supply. Thanks for the advice. Any suggests (other than the Voodoo, unless that’s definitely the one to go for), needs to do analogue and digital pedals. Thanks in advance again.
You need to have a list of polarity on the pedals- most are center neutral- and the amp draw; most are mA- but that big guy on the left might be 2A. They have cables for all of that. And those daisy chain cables don't work for everything- my sTone Bender needs it's own "thing". i have to take the brown M&M's out of the bowl when i use it.
 

Mattyboy75

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Thanks. I have tried using the power supply that came with the Electro harmonix pedal (it’s 9v 500ma) it still buzzes. The power supply I have does have a 9v 500a output too. If I disconnect the electro harmonix completely the buzz reduces hugely.
 

charliechitlins

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I've been gigging a cheapie One Spot for years.
I keep a spare in the spares bag, but haven't needed it.
 

corpse

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My sTone buzzes like a bestid. If I am not playing a song with it it gets unplugged from the circuit entirely.
 
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