Right now, all my pedals are on the floor running off a TREX Fuel Tank Junior and the power adapter that came with my Strymon Flint. I want to tidy it all up and put them on a board with a better power supply. This is what I'll put on it:
JRAD Archer
Soul Food
OCD
EHX Big Muff Nano
EHX Pitch Fork
TC Viscous Vibe
TC Flashback
TC HOF 2
Strymon Flint
The lower powered boxes (Soul Food, Big Muff Nano, JRAD Archer) can be daisy chained, but some need to be isolated, and the OCD likes 18v, while the Flint wants at least 250ma.
The GigRig Generator + Distributor + Isolator + Time Lord + Doubler comes to over £300 while the Strymon Zuma is £250.
I like the idea of the GigRig stuff because it's expandable but I don't like it that you have to pay another £59 for a new adapter for each high power pedal you buy.
On the other hand the Zuma has 9 isolated 500ma outputs, two of which can be voltage adjusted,
Thoughts? Any experience of either?
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I've never seen a Strymon but it really does look small and compact. With what you've listed, I reckon the Zuma would do it as long as you pick up a voltage doubler if you really want to run the OCD at 18V. This is really easy to do on the Gigrig Isolator, by the way.
The Zuma sounds pretty flexible. However, doesn't it have a power block or wall wart? The Gigrig Generator just takes an IEC cable from the wall. I hate having lumps on the floor or out of my power strip.
You would need to daisy chain a couple of pedals but otherwise it looks like it could run everything on your list.
Zuma runs off an IEC.
The gigrig stuff is great but super pricey. When you add up all those modules it won't be cheap.
Jury is out on the strymon stuff, there are a fair few faults being flagged over on tgp at the moment.
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I've just gone down the rebuilding my pedalboard rabbit hole - and I've gone for the Gigrig system. Yes its expensive but its quiet and flexible. Gets my vote.
I think the gigrig stuff is a wonderful solution, as others have said here - buy used and you're likely looking at £20-45 for each 'small box' - based on what I just sold mine for.
It's very, very quiet; can be expanded as much as you'll ever need, and also has the advantage that you can run cables super neatly.
I agree, expanding it can get expensive, but you do get what you pay for I think.
However, there are also smaller/cheaper solutions that are likely as good - and the generator is a pretty chunky box - and I think some stuff is overpriced/can get pricy if you have a lot of Strymons etc.
Something I really liked was I had two boards for a time, a large and a small - all with exactly the right power supply to each pedal, all isolated. And I simply switched the Generator between the two - that was cool