No place to put a battery?

[Napthol]

Just removed the back cover from my Angry Charlie pedal. There is no place to put a battery. Never seen this before. Why did the company do that?

[Mincer]

Is it AC power only?

[Securb]

A lot of my newer and mini pedals are AC only.

[Napthol]

Yup. AC power only. I got that going okay since I have some adapters. A word of warning about this pedal though. It does sound pretty good but it is extremely noisy.

[Aceman]

Yup. AC power only. I got that going okay since I have some adapters. A word of warning about this pedal though. It does sound pretty good but it is extremely noisy.

Ever hear an Angry JCM800? It's extremely noisy.

It's 2024, and I use batteries for almost nothing these days. I have over 100 pedals probably.

The cost of 2-3 one sports and a few extension barrels nothing compared to the cost of batteries for a pedal you use a lot.

[jeremy]

lots of pedals these days are power supply only, which depending on what i want it for, that can be a no-go

[Mincer]

Yeah, I bet the current trend is to get rid of battery power altogether.

[GuitarStv]

Honestly, other than to check that the battery clips still worked before selling, I haven't plugged a battery into a pedal in probably a decade.

[jeremy]

often i use only one od box so i prefer to use a battery in those situations

[GuitarStv]

often i use only one od box so i prefer to use a battery in those situations

Me - "I'm just going to take one pedal out tonight"
Wife - "The hell you will! You didn't spend all that money on that pedalboard thingie to leave it at home!"

[jeremy]

ha! i havent tallied the approximate value of my gear, and im sure if my wife had an idea of what it was worth, there would be a discussion beyond the current "it takes up too much space"

[eclecticsynergy]

Nowadays, plenty of pedals don't have battery capability - particularly digital ones; they draw more current and tend to burn through batteries quickly.
But plenty of analog pedals won't take one either. Some modern pedals are complex enough that even the space a battery requires can be an issue.

Two things, though:
First of all, a majority of analog drive pedals need only minimal juice. So the charge in 9 Volt can last a long time when powering one.
Not using batteries anymore myself, mostly because my pedals are on a board and it'd be inconvenient to unhook them every time.
For one drive or fuzz first in line, that could sort of happen automatically when you unplug your guitar cord from the board.
But each of my boards has several drives, plus the big board has a FreQout pedal that likes being the first one in line.

Secondly though, certain pedals (especially old school fuzz circuits) actually sound better on a cheap battery than they do on DC power. This isn't just about lower voltage.
I have two voltage jacks on my big power supply, and on the little board there's a Deadbat box to starve power. Undervoltage does makes a fuzz sound 'spittier.'
But I'm told bargain batteries also exhibit resistance between their negative & positive terminals, which also both affects tone & texture in a simple fuzz.
And simply starving them for voltage doesn't give the same effect.

My Analogman fuzzface has battery terminals inside, but no jack for remote power.
Battery power only, for tone's sake.

[jeremy]

i love my nkt sunface and it absolutely sounds better with an old school non-alkaline battery. you can order them with a power jack if ya want though. for my pedal boards, i of course use a power supply, but much of the time, im just using timmy or another od into my old deluxe and a power supply for one pedal is a pita

[ErikH]

often i use only one od box so i prefer to use a battery in those situations

Same with me. One or two, battery. Using a board, power supply.

[Mincer]

I will use battery-based effects for one or two pedals on a show. I don't do a lot of those, but if I am playing at a festival with a provided backline and a one hour set, sure, I can get by with that.