Dan0h
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Ok, a good percent of you dudes will already know this but for the rest of noobs learning as we go I thought this was a good learning the hard way example to share.
So we build pedals. Lots of freaking pedals. We have boards. Sometimes with many of the pedals we build on it. We try out daisy chains and power bricks and all sorts of power options. We get into a comfort zone and new builds kick off old builds on the board. But for me my power brick pretty much stayed the same. The long and the short of it is this week I realized that my CS6 (love this thing and gut shot below because we all love to see the guts) was getting majorly taxed in the consumption department. It’s rated at 1600ma total across 6 outputs which is great but I had been feeding one of my two tube builds off it which was gobbling up a lot of that range. Everything still functioned but I noticed specifically my blues breaker clone and my rat clone didn’t sound as full and alive as I thought they should. I disconnected power from a hungry tube build and BAMM! Night and day difference the two drive pedals not only regained their awesome grit but sounded ten times fuller and clean, and the octave on the rat (life clone) roared back to its epic goodness where before it just sounded sort of nasty. I was also, for the first time in over a year, able to remove all buffers and still have a clean crisp signal.
Long ass story short. I ordered a second single one spot and now my board of eight pedals is powered by a cs6, two single one spots (one for each tube build) and an EH Wallwart for my DMM clone. It’s a crazy amount of plugs, but it also eliminates several issues of oscillation that I was getting depending on pedal order, and now each pedal can pull as much current as they need and the whole damn thing just sounds alive and epic again. Power is import don’t sleep on that shit you may end up with shitty sounds.
So we build pedals. Lots of freaking pedals. We have boards. Sometimes with many of the pedals we build on it. We try out daisy chains and power bricks and all sorts of power options. We get into a comfort zone and new builds kick off old builds on the board. But for me my power brick pretty much stayed the same. The long and the short of it is this week I realized that my CS6 (love this thing and gut shot below because we all love to see the guts) was getting majorly taxed in the consumption department. It’s rated at 1600ma total across 6 outputs which is great but I had been feeding one of my two tube builds off it which was gobbling up a lot of that range. Everything still functioned but I noticed specifically my blues breaker clone and my rat clone didn’t sound as full and alive as I thought they should. I disconnected power from a hungry tube build and BAMM! Night and day difference the two drive pedals not only regained their awesome grit but sounded ten times fuller and clean, and the octave on the rat (life clone) roared back to its epic goodness where before it just sounded sort of nasty. I was also, for the first time in over a year, able to remove all buffers and still have a clean crisp signal.
Long ass story short. I ordered a second single one spot and now my board of eight pedals is powered by a cs6, two single one spots (one for each tube build) and an EH Wallwart for my DMM clone. It’s a crazy amount of plugs, but it also eliminates several issues of oscillation that I was getting depending on pedal order, and now each pedal can pull as much current as they need and the whole damn thing just sounds alive and epic again. Power is import don’t sleep on that shit you may end up with shitty sounds.
