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[Spoonie]

are you sure that's the right website? it seems to sell t shirts!! cheers for the tip tho. that's grand.

spoons
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get the power-all by godlyke.
humless power, adapters for most (all) power inputs, provieds 1.5A, so could probably supply over 10 pedals depending on power consumption. no hum, trannsformerless design.

[Spoonie]

an interesting development in this thread!

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[Jeid]

my bad, i didn't check the link

http://www.wah-wah.co.uk/

http://www.guitarexperience.co.uk/ht...wprod&prodID=3

i got mine here, it comes with 5 outputs daisy chained together, you can buy an extra 5 daisy change from maplin, so you can power up to 9, or you could buy 2 extra daisy chains so you can power up to 13, etc etc till you run out of current.

visual sound also do a product almost identical called the one spot.

the godlyke comes with enough adapters to power pedals by pretty much any manufacturer, including pedals that only run on batteries. i think you can buy extra adapters if you need them from visual sound.

p.s a note on true bypass,

its OK in the right place and if you're pedals suck tone a lot, however most pedals arn't true bypass, and this is for a very good tried and tested reason, it's not usually the best solution.

true bypass, if used extensively lengthens your signal line which in turn degrades your signal dramatically. The best solution is a high input impedance buffers before and after all of your pedals. This is easily done if you buy pedals with a high quality buffer when in bypass mode, and keep any true bypass pedals inbetween the buffers.

Pedals may suck tone, the reason is because the buffers impedance is too low, and the solution should not be to make it true bypass unless it's necessary. some people may buy pedals that suck tone and make them true bypass to compensate. What i'm getting at here, is if you buy a cheap pedal, then you have to expect to compromise on the parts inside the pedal. A cheap pedal will suck tone, and that's a consequence of cheap parts and cutting costs in the design process. If you buy good pedals, then converting your pedals to true bypass is pointless. The difference between a chain that uses good quality buffers, and a chain that uses true bypass is extremely noticible. In some cases if you make a pedal true bypass that has exceptionally good buffering in bypass mode originally, the quality will be greatly reduced, which is the opposite of what was intended.

making some pedals true bypass is also a lot harder than others. for example, the dano mini series of pedals tend to use a a much more complex logic switching system which uses a momentary footswitch, it's basically impossible to make this sort of pedal true bypass unless you give the switching mechanism a complete overhaul.

fyi the pro co rat series of pedals almost indefinetly use true bypass as stock.

Originally Posted by Alan Cynic

Another question........is it possible to get a power bank thing you can fill with batteries?? (I know it sounds stupid, but it's for going abroad, and avoiding carting mains adaptors etc

Also....IF playing abroad, is it safe to use mains adaptors onstage (eg UK to US ones).

Sorry for butting in, Spoonie!

the godlyke works on any mains power that is between 100v a.c to 240 v a.c

i think the power bank would need a transformer stage.