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I did, when I had a large and a small pedal board - basically both boards were permanently wired and I'd just drop in the Generator.
One board had a G2, so you're kind of on that route anyway, but the other didn't that was straight pedals.
Undoubtedly it's a very good, very versatile system. My pedals did sound very good, and it was fun to put together
They also make it easy to lay out a nice simple board in many ways, since you start (say) with a distributor and a couple of isolators and you're powering a fair few pedals, and can position the isolators very close to the pedals.
But I agree, it gets very expensive once you start adding a few other adapters. That said, I definitely would use them again, buying components second hand helps too.
That's actually one of the things I was glad to leave behind, Gigrig stuff is good - but I always felt the solution involved buying something extra from them, rather than it working out of the box.
Price of flexibility I guess
I've now gone Strymon Zuma and kept my Pedal Power AC for when I need it.
The Gigrig stuff is good but starts getting pricey if you need the more specialised adapters.
For me the attraction of the Gigrig stuff is part neatness and part flexibility if you want to change stuff. If you have a big board and need more juice you potentially only need to buy an adapter or another isolator, rather than a whole new "big" PSU like a PP2+. That said, the Zuma kinda offers that with the Ojai.
It's a neat, tidy and flexible solution, and some might be able to do it all themselves, but it's a luxury if you're not a touring or busy musician.
I love the Gigrig Generator and have kept it for a small Bass Board but in the end, I just ended up buying a Cioks DC10 and was done with it.
I don't doubt that it's a great system but it's proper pricey.
The cioks powerfactor 2 did the whole job for £200 and was rock solid
I used to have Gigrig but changed to Zuma. The 18v switch is simple genius, and I did find Gigrig a wee bit temperamental at times. The Strymon stuff does the lot.
If I was using a board with space underneath for a power supply I would go with Voodoo Lab, Cioks or Strymon and they are all less expensive.
I know it weighs a lot less as a PSU.
He manages to sell them so I guess the price is right
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/124241/vitoos-iso4-plus-new-psu-option#latest
8 x 500ma 9v outputs all runs off one 12v power supply.
i don’t know how they’ve done it but each output is isolated.
Voodoo labs special cables (18 volt, current doubters etc) all work.
you can get two for the price of one timelord.
I have a gig rig isolator plugged into one of the outputs for my low current drives giving me 11 outputs
As for the comments about having loads of stuff under the board - yes I can see the concern but genuinely it’s not an issue.
The best but for me is the scaleable nature of it. I’ve got 11 pedals powered - three with ‘difficult’ needs and all fully isolated for a lack of noise pickup. If I decide to change things I’m confident that I can power anything.
I researched power supplies in depth depth and for me, the gig rig solution was the best option (for me).
To be honest I think a lot of the fault lies with the pedal manufactures ... if they decoupled the supply rails better and had better filters half the problems would go away.