Pedal Power 3 High Current 8-output Isolated Power Supply Review

Finally! Isolated power with enough juice to power my whole rig

For many years I used a cheap Donner system. It was supposed to be isolated power (false), and it was supposed to have sufficient power for all my pedals including a couple 12V power hogs (also false). About 3 months ago I went amp-less, straight into the PA. So I have a dual tube pre-amp with an effects loop going out to a Two-notes cabinet emulator. With the added power needed,… read more the Donner just wasn't cutting it. I immediately noticed from time to time power dropped out from my signal. Not good. If you have a couple big pedals in your chain, you need to upgrade to this. Those cheaper systems just don't work. With Pedal Power 3 - I have my full rig powered with a single power source. With everything powered by the PP3, my rig looks like this... 1) guitar to tuner followed by overdrive and distortion pedals 2) distortion to pre-amp 3) effects loop sent to chorus, reverb, delay 4) return to pre-amp, out to cabinet emulator 5) then straight to house PA (and returned via in-ear monitors) Seriously, what a difference this pedal has made. cleaner signal, all the power I need with total reliability. If you're using in-ear monitors, you'll definitely notice a difference. Those things return everything in your chain. And I can definitely hear a significantly cleaner signal.

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Excellent power and features for the price. Backed by a solid name.

Powers my pedals and wireless effortlessly. High power draw pedals? No problem. I run a pile of Strymon pedals along with a Shure GLDX wireless and a digitech drop (high drawing pedals) and this thing barely blinks at it. Excellent piece of kit.

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Ended all my pedal power issues

Eliminated all the terrible noise and provides all the power I need. Very happy with my purchase.

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Smaller, lighter, and just as good

I run two different pedalboards. One studio, one travel. In my travel board (also called the budget board), I tried a couple other big name supplies, but was still getting some noise between my pedals and pre-amp. I don't think the others were really isolated despite being marketed as such. I decided to 'bite the bullet' and just invest in another Voodoo lab supply and it solved… read more all my noise issues. Now, both my boards run these (one 4x4 and one 3). Couldn't be happier with these supplies. I can also report that these are still compatible with the Temple Audio brackets.

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