Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

[Artie]

With the exception of those who will only ever use one or two pedals, I think we, in the 21st century, may have evolved beyond 9VDC power. If you use more than two pedals, you probably have some sort of "power brick". It's plugged into the wall. Lets stop converting 120VAC power to a battery. How about if we start using a genuine 3-prong, +/- 15VDC bi-polar power supply. (For the sake of those beautiful new hi-fi opamps and such). We can eliminate a bunch of coupling caps and do some serious dynamic range and overhead. The time is here.

What say yee?

Artie

(Seymour, et al? Are you listening?)

 

[MrTondo]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

Paradigm shifts are expensive...

That being said, I wholeheartedly agree we could be much smarter in the Power Supply department of guitar effects... +/- 12/15/18 V would be great, let's standardize the connector, make it sturdier, locking etc. while we're at it .

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

Shoot, the standard 1/4" jack is coming up on its 125 birthday pretty quickly.

I think 18V is a reasonable standard, two 9V in series or a power plug. OTOH, a lot of the digital effects are running at 5V anyway...

 

[Rich_S]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

I was thinking the same thing today as I unpackaged a nice 24Vdc power supply that I bought for a project at work.

However, I don't believe such a change will fly with the guitar-playing public. If it doesn't have two 1/4" jacks, a Boss-style 9 volt connector, and a stomp switch, ain't no one gonna buy it.


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[Artie]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

I think 18V is a reasonable standard . . .

More DC doesn't address the problem. We need a true bi-polar power supply to eliminate unnecessary input/output caps. But, 18VDC would indeed, provide more headroom than the current 9-volt standard.

If it doesn't have two 1/4" jacks, a Boss-style 9 volt connector, and a stomp switch, ain't no one gonna buy it.

If we build it, they will come.

Artie

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

If you build it, there is an ambitious young Australian who will happily test and review any free samples that you send. :biglaugh:

 

[Demanic]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

If you build it, there is an ambitious young Australian who will happily test and review any free samples that you send. :biglaugh:

Really?

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[HiFiRebel]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

I'm one of thr lone holdouts with the brick and daisy chain. Sorry.

 

[VinceT]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

If you build it, there is an ambitious young Australian who will happily test and review any free samples that you send. :biglaugh:

:biggerlaugh:


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[SlyFoxx]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

What about some form of phantom power for guitar? (like you find on audio mixers for microphones) Source it from the amp....goes down your lead to your FX board. Possibly then split into isolated feeds if necessary. Of course it would take a whole industry standard but man would that be great if it could be made to work.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

Funny after have made effect with +-12v for a great many years..I still like the sound of those POS 9v circuits better.

 

[Artie]

Re: Some late night ramblings about the next evolution in pedal power.

What about some form of phantom power for guitar?

Jensen Transformers has a design of this:



And I have my own design breadboarded, but haven't installed and tested yet: