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Are Isolated Power Supplies Legit? - MXR Isobrick Demo & Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- In this video, we take a closer look at the MXR IsoBrick, a power supply unit designed to keep your pedalboard running smoothly without noise or interference. Compact yet powerful, the IsoBrick offers a range of outputs to accommodate various pedal requirements, ensuring a clean and reliable power source for your effects.
Key points we'll cover:
Overview of the MXR IsoBrick's features
How it compares to other power supply units
Tips for optimizing your pedalboard setup with the IsoBrick
The right power supply can make a big difference in your sound. Let's dive into what makes the IsoBrick a standout choice.
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All your pedals are fairly modern and designed with daisy chains in mind. When you have older pedals not all of them draw the same current at the same rate. So the isoblock will cure that. For example I had an older style analog pedal following my tuner and the power was daisy chained from the tuner, and whenever I had the boss tuner activated, the ground hum would change pitch based on the intensity of the led display on the pedal. It can also affect your signal entirely. I'm currently trouble shooting a new pedal setup and my clean signal is getting distorted before it hits the amp but doesn't exist when I plug directly into the amp. I've removed every pedal from the daisy chain individually and changed the pedal connection all the way down the line. The only possibility I have left is that one of my non boss pedals is drawing too much current and starving one of my other pedals (SAG) because most pedals especially boss aren't tru bypass so the signal is affected even when the pedals aren't engaged.
Yup. In theory everything contributes to either creating noise or helping to reduce it. A isolated power supply is not going help much if his amp is already noisy. He has to troubleshoot everything. And maxing out everything on the amp will definitely create noise. A power supply is not a noise gate. And even a noise gate won't help a noisy amplifier unless you got a fx loop to plug it into or built-in noise gate.
Yup. Boss pedals are buffer and not true bypass. And depending upon the situation they can potentially suck tone and power like a drunk sailor. I try to have only one Boss in the front and one in the back.
@@TroyNaumu808 Sorry grandpa but boss pedals don't suck tone.
Okay, sure get an entire pedal board with a mix of digital and analog pedals and run them off a single daisy chain. Post the video for me.
Schizophrenic mode
Out of curiosity are you using soldered or no soldered patch cables? The patch cables might be the reason for the noise.
Appreciate this video a lot!
Thanks a lot. It didn't do so well.
@@andrewsiemon You were an honest human being. Already ahead of 75% of guitar info online. haha
Isolated supplies really shine when you’re in a place with dirty power. Old/bad grounding etc in whatever electrical system you plug into creates so much noise and even rf interference. You’d be surprised how different this experiment would sound in some shitty dive bar lol
That makes a lot sense and that’s why I declined to shit on these power supplies. I understand I don’t know everything and my experiment didn’t necessarily reflect all circumstances. Cheers
Btw, are you the Morningstar company? If so, send me the Morningstar MC8. I’d love to hook that bad boy up to my Boss Rc-5
@@andrewsiemon cheers mate. Great vid none the less, it’s good to see what clean power does to signal chains through different power supplies.
Im not the Morningstar company, just a dude with that same name lol. Sorry to disappoint