Re: Isolating your effect pedals (DO IT)
2017/08/15 03:43:27
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I've had a Pedal Power and a T-Rex mini fuel tank for years. They can be life savers with some stuff. Generally I only worry about isolating pedals that object to being daisy-chained, many are quite happy sharing power (and power ground) with others, and some just aren't.
The other big noise inducer in pedals that I've come across more and more over the last few years are the switching supplies almost always built into modern wall warts. Some pedals really hate those things and emit all kinds of whines and buzzes when connected to them. Not just old pedals either :-( The switching supplies can also push out quite a bit of RFI and even be acoustically noisy. Not only cheap, no name Chinese ones either, I've a couple of noisy ones supplied by very reputable European synth makers.
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