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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: RobA on November 22, 2013, 02:51:18 PM

Title: Noisiest Pedals?
Post by: RobA on November 22, 2013, 02:51:18 PM
I'm doing some playing with various power supply generation IC's and I'd like to test them in some of the worst known offenders for being sensitive to power supplies. I'm looking at 9V, -9V, +/-9V, 15V, and 18V type circuits.

I've already dropped one IC from consideration just using a Ge negative rail fuzz, but a couple of other IC's have done brilliantly with it. So, I need to throw some harder cases at them. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Noisiest Pedals?
Post by: croquet hoop on November 25, 2013, 04:36:56 PM
Bump. I am interested in this as well, as I'll have to test a power supply layout soon.
Title: Re: Noisiest Pedals?
Post by: midwayfair on November 25, 2013, 04:41:16 PM
Red Llama comes to mind. Really anything with that chip.

Anything with an OTA chip in the audio path.
Title: Re: Noisiest Pedals?
Post by: twin1965 on November 25, 2013, 05:03:18 PM
Stage Fright was giving me all sorts of problems with one PSU.

The Harbinger One needs a well filtered PSU. This one was making all sorts of noises with an 18V SMPS.
Title: Re: Noisiest Pedals?
Post by: RobA on November 26, 2013, 02:39:16 AM
Thanks for the info. I haven't done a Red Llama, this will be a good excuse.

I've got a couple of OTA based compressors I can try and a couple of phase shifters too.

I've got a Stage Fright but I haven't seen any noise issues with the three power supplies I've tried it with. I'll give it a test with this experiment though. Was it a commercial PS that you saw the noise issue with?