Broomiester Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Hi, I need a new power supply for my pedals and the new pedaltrain volto looks ideal. My board is a pedaltrain jr and I really want something that would fit easily underneath, not give loads of buzz and not cost the earth. My first question is truly a novice one, but would it be able to power all of my effects. On my board I have: - Akai analog custom shop compressor - EHX Big Muff tone wicker -Crowther Hot Cake - black star HT dual (doubt it will power this as the pedal requires 16v - thought I'd check anyway) - a load of regular boss pedals (tuner, bass eq, overdrive ect) Will the power supply work for all of these? The reason I ask is because of the positive and negative symbols on my pedals. I can work out whether they conflict with each other and therefore I will need separate power supplies for my pedals. My second question is simply: should I buy it? I've seen the posts about it on this forum already and many people are skeptacle about its battery life, this doesn't really bother me. I don't mind having it plugged in all the time. The only thing stopping me buying it is that I don't know whether it will be able to power all my pedals (I use up to 7 at a time) without being really noisy. If it's not suitable can you recommend any alternatives (don't mind if they are mains powered) that will be able to power all my pedals quietly for preferably sub £100. Sorry for the length, just got a lot to learn! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 As long as the power supply has enough amps to run all your pedals, then you can get adaptors to reverse polarity as required. For the HT dual, you could either run that off it's own supply or get a transformer to boost the Volto's output to that one pedal. Whether the Volto is any good or not, I cannot answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skej21 Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) [quote name='Broomiester' timestamp='1396392240' post='2413183'] Hi, I need a new power supply for my pedals and the new pedaltrain volto looks ideal. My board is a pedaltrain jr and I really want something that would fit easily underneath, not give loads of buzz and not cost the earth. My first question is truly a novice one, but would it be able to power all of my effects. On my board I have: - Akai analog custom shop compressor - EHX Big Muff tone wicker -Crowther Hot Cake - black star HT dual (doubt it will power this as the pedal requires 16v - thought I'd check anyway) - a load of regular boss pedals (tuner, bass eq, overdrive ect) Will the power supply work for all of these? The reason I ask is because of the positive and negative symbols on my pedals. I can work out whether they conflict with each other and therefore I will need separate power supplies for my pedals. My second question is simply: should I buy it? I've seen the posts about it on this forum already and many people are skeptacle about its battery life, this doesn't really bother me. I don't mind having it plugged in all the time. The only thing stopping me buying it is that I don't know whether it will be able to power all my pedals (I use up to 7 at a time) without being really noisy. If it's not suitable can you recommend any alternatives (don't mind if they are mains powered) that will be able to power all my pedals quietly for preferably sub £100. Sorry for the length, just got a lot to learn! Thanks! [/quote] If you can get one second hand, the MXR DC Brick will do everything you need and should be under £100 too! http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/mxr-dc-brick It's also quite a lot smaller than the volto, so it should fit under your pedaltrain quite nicely! Edited April 6, 2014 by skej21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetofuj Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I personally don't like rechargable idea. Look at new Cioks called Adam: http://www.thomann.de/gb/cioks_adam_link.htm Shoulf fit under the jr. and has got isolated outputs, which means you can power negative and positive pedals just using correct plug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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