Pedal Power - What You Need to Know to Power Guitar Pedals Properly

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Powering Pedals

Powering your pedals correctly is really important if you want to get the best out of them, and with the prices of pedals seemingly creeping up and up, they are not getting any cheaper. If we're going to spend lots on a new pedal, the least we should do is to make sure it's powered correctly so we get the best out of it.

I know, it's not very exciting or sexy, not compared to looking at the latest new overdrive pedal that's got loads of cool faders and which can offer us hundreds of sounds, presets, midi applications and so on, but if you have pedals then we can't get away from the fact that at the heart of our set up there will be a power supply, or maybe even more than one.

Ideally, what we generally want is a board that is just plug and play, as in we just need to connect one plug or adapter and off we go. So we may be looking at something like a One Spot daisy chain for a very small board, or certainly when we first get into pedals as this will generally do an okay job when we just have a couple of overdrives to power.

However, once we start getting a other pedals we might notice more noise creeping into our set up. Maybe a digital delay unit and a modulation pedal is added, and then we get a new overdrive too which just seems noisier than it should be, and things just don't quite sound or feel right any more.

At this point, we really need to look at our set up and put a bit of thought into how it's powered.

Here's a video that demonstrates a few of the points discussed in this blog, but keep reading too to see the main things we need to take into consideration.

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