Quote from: Commander15 on May 09, 2023, 09:55:45 AM
So you keep killing your power supply units one after another? Then i suspect that there is something wrong with those cheap caline / donner / mooer supplies OR in electric currents in your house or other space you are using OR those outputs of power supplies are not properly isolated and thus causing problems with polarity of some pedals / devices used. Are the supplies grounded? Are there ground loops in your set?
Only time when i have killed an power supply was when i daisy chained an older 3,5mm power jack equipped RAT with center negative Boss TU-3. Boss was fried, as was power supply and i recieved an big electric shock. This happened in Finland where the general current is 230V and electrics are done pretty much tip-top everywhere. After that i have only used proper isolated CIOKS / Voodoo Labs power bricks or separate BOSS supplies.
I don't know what a ground loop is, so likely not. What is a ground loop and how do I use one? (EDIT - Boy do I feel dumb, no I don't have any ground loop going or at least it's not super noticeable, could only benefit from getting a better power supply anyways) The issue only arises when I plug in those beat machines to the instrument jack on my first pedal in the chain so I know it specifically has to do with adding those to my current chain whatever is going on there and the pedals themselves are always fine. I'm not sure what the general current in my place is (US) but judging by what is going on here specifically I don't think that is the issue. I myself have not received any electric shocks and there isn't any sparking that occurs. Seems to be just enough of a power overload through my current brick to screw it up but not enough to totally wreck it in a dangerous way like that.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CIOKSDC7--cioks-dc7-pedal-power-supply Is this one of the power supplies you're talking about there?
UPDATE - I was able to safely use it in the second mixer slot, not quite what I wanted but it's a way. They can kinda blend but I don't think it sound very satisfying (currently anyways, only ran a test with couple microphone feedback distortion layers so far) unless I do a sharp dip down into sound coming from the sampler before diving right back into total chaos. I'll have to play around more with that with everything going and see how that works out
UPDATE 2 - I wasn't too satisfied with how that turned out this morning and it contributes when the signal is beefed up enough to hard clipping which ironically I do not want going on, So then I big brained a bit and found another way, using it without running it through the mixer at all which worked perfectly but even with the volume maxed on it (which also overdrives the sound a bit itself) and if it's not on there is no feedback noise. To work with my Tascam for recording, I'd just need some more 1/4" adapters to get the sound to both channels for each end. BUT one problem, the mixer noise completely dominates the signal and I can't drop the volume on it enough to do anything but sharp drops on purpose like the only way I found to use it when I found that safe way to do so, The SP404MKII just isn't loud enough to mix with it on its own so what I'm going to do next is have a battery powered only Proco RAT2 there to see if that beefs that signal up enough to compete with the mixer signal better which should also get some brutal shark crunchiness going on too.
UPDATE 3 - Yesterday I had only 3 pedals going and was doing a set up with the synth that is always fine and this did the thing again to it (it was synth into multi effects --> Hall of Fame 2 --> Hot Head distortion pedal), I'm actually starting to think this an accumulating issue and I just don't hit that overload point with it as quickly. So I bit the bullet and ordered that other power supply I linked up there, no one reports any noise problems with it, Like the synth isn't even directly connected to the brick. I'll post the results when I try that one out, should be 4-5 days. I wonder if this will make things even quieter at a baseline, I may be having subtle bad noise problems I don't even know about. Since no one can help me here as it seems no one has ever had an issue like this ever it's up to me to go down this rabbit hole and pull up all the information I can on it. Who knows probably in the future someone else will see this topic and save themselves the money and endless frustration. 500 something views too, guess everyone is lining up to see this power supply saga unfold. I also looked up adding a synth to a guitar pedal chain and have found no warnings on doing this and looking at bad power supply reviews have come across experiences of gradual noise and eventual failure of them too.
UPDATE 4 - So the new power supply came in and it fixed the issue...almost too well to the point where I actually now play differently because the sound is so strong and clean now. Not a single current overload, the lights didn't even blink a little on it and I tried everything. My noise is now more higher and sharper in profile with less ultra low end explosionyness to it. I even had to now use a powered microphone because the old one doesn't cut in that strong and heavy mix at all anymore and I'm now thinking of new ideas because I can't use it in the same exact way I used the other. I never once thought a power supply could change the way your noise sounds even without damage to it but this is proof that it actually does matter.
