Noisy Boss DS-1 (and not in a good way)

ThreeChordWonder

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Let me start by saying that I've never bought into the $500 size of a substation pedal power supplies. Most pedals these days only draw 50 to 100 milliamps. There's no way I'm spending megabucks on a power supply, period.

I just changed the wall wart and daisy chain power lead setup for much more modest pwer supply ($50) with parellel offtakes to each pedal. I kept the signal and power cables as far apart as I reasonably could. I was trying to try to deafeat a horrible hum I get from the DS-1, gain only slightly up or all the way up, strummed or not strummed.

The new power supply made no difference.

I even tried running it completely independently using the internal 9 volt battery and that didn't help.

Any ideas (apart from using the bloody thing as a doorstop or wrapping my next complaint letter to GC around it before throwing it through their window)?
 
I assume that doesn’t happen with other pedals?

Analog pedals tend to be more forgiving in terms of how they can be powered, so this is unusual. The fact that a battery didn’t work either likely means power is not the problem.
 
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