Right, I need to stop my board being so noisy. Currently I have on my board, the following:
Boss TU2
MXR Micro Amp
Crowther Hotcake
Mr Black Eterna
Boss PS-3
Line 6 Echo Park
EHX Freeze
Boss DD20
Zvex Fat Fuzz Factory
Zvex Instant Lo-Fi Junky
Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander
Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid
Boss OC2
Ibanez LF7
Boss RV5
Boss NS2
Digitech Whammy IV
Empress SuperDelay
TC Electronics Ditto
Nobels CO-2
I currently power the Whammy, Line 6 and Empress off their own supplies, then One-spot & Daisy chain the rest, and unsurprisingly enough, it's noisy as all hell.
I AM AWARE THIS IS GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE
My question is twofold!
1. Is there a way of powering all this with one unit / plug?
2. Will it stop the noise??
Will the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power Mondo do it? Would I need to buy anything additional to that? - I really can't get my head round this stuff.
Here's the majority of the power requirements, but for the Zvex and ED stuff.... And the Muff has gone... It's an old list!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff193/guitarsforminnaars/Mobile Uploads/image-7.jpg
Comments
1. Yes- gigrig system will do it, but you'd need to email Dan for the right solution. It won't be cheap. You can run an AC supply off that IIRC.
2. I do think you've a lot of competing pedals and buffers there. You are going to have different types of noise issues too. An integated supply will help with the earth hums.
I really hate to suggest this route, but I'd get a great bypass strip with all of those (LoopMaster, Quartermaster etc) and I'd have a buffer on input and output.
At least then you'll have all the controls in one place and you'll isolate competing buffers and pedals.
Make sure to get great cables- Lava minimum. Don't use GL's (well i wouldn't!)
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Are you running pedals into the front and loop off the same daisy chain? If yes, this can give some noise issues, try separate daisy chains for the loop and front.
Also the NS-2, although not a bad noisegate, I found the MXR Smartgate was better for removing the pedal hum/singlecoil hum. I prefer the NS-2 for staccato high-gain riffing (Ala Pantera)
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This made me chuckle.... I went through something similar earlier this year, had some annoying noise, decided enough was enough and bought a voodoo labs 4x4 and that hurt the wallet, but never had to think about it again so it's been worth it!
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Anyway, my guitar is a VM Squier, you know that!
pfffffffffffft. Imagine how good it'd all sound with decent cables and power supply!
MIND.
BLOWN.
It would still be worth getting a supply with isolated outputs. Even if you don't have isolated outputs for everything, you could run 2 or 3 pedals that work nicely together off of each output.