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You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the Truth!! More than you need to know about power supplies

I'll tell ya what:  the last fucking thing I want to think about is a power supply.  Talk about a glamour-less experience.  The best one you can get doesn't do ANYTHING to your sound.  Nothing at all.  Makes it sound like its not there.  Here I am working my ass off to make shit that changes your tone for the better, and the power supply's job is to make sure it doesn't.  At all.  I should be making power supplies. If you haven't guess it already, this edition of Straight Jive is going to discuss some power supply theory, the...

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How many pedals is too many for my power supply?

Dave in Portland, OR asks: "Using a 1Spot power adapter, how many pedals is too many pedals to chain together on a 1Spot? I am using a 1Spot with an extender and it's powering: Fulltone Choralflange Crybaby wah Jack Deville Dark Echo Line 6 MM-4 modeler (with One-Spot Line 6 adapter) BOSS® TU-2 Tuner BOSS® TR-2 Tremolo Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive Ibanez Tube Screamer My thought is, how can this one power supply work for all of these? Am I risking damaging anything?" Hey Dave! Great question. I'd wager there are a lot of guys out there wondering if this...

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SuperMoon power requirements

Jon in Murfeesboro, TN asks: "What kind of power supply does my SuperMoon need?"   The SuperMoon is designed to be powered by 9 volts, from either a standard 9V battery, or an industry standard 2.1mm negative center-pin 9VDC adapater such as the VisualSound 1 Spot power adapter, or VooDoo Labs PedalPower 2. SuperMoon has internal reverse polarity protection to prevent damage to the pedal if the wrong power supply is used, and can even be run on 18V if desired, HOWEVER: testing has concluded that 18VDC does not offer any notable improvement to tone, sound quality, feel or really anything at all. As a result,...

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