battery snaps yes or no
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battery snaps yes or no
I would really like to know what the good people of ILF think about batteries and 9v boss adapters. I know my preference is to use a visual sound one spot for everything except maybe the germanium fuzz face and the germanium rangemaster. how about you? also, on a battery powered pedal, would you rather have an LED or longer battery life if you had a choice?
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I don't ever use batteries. I use a power supply (Supa Charger) and love it. I'm not even sure that all of my pedals even take batteries.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
To me the most important aspects of a pedal other than the toans are top mounted in/out/power and having an LED.
I guess a battery option on a pedal that is picky about it's power supply would be nice. Realistically though, unless I REALLY loved it
and couldn't find a suitable replacement, I'd probably ditch/avoid anything that didn't work with my current Godlyke daisy chain setup.
I guess a battery option on a pedal that is picky about it's power supply would be nice. Realistically though, unless I REALLY loved it
and couldn't find a suitable replacement, I'd probably ditch/avoid anything that didn't work with my current Godlyke daisy chain setup.

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Re: battery snaps yes or no
Batteries are a pain and I can never keep track of which ones are dead.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I never use batteries
but if I had a battery only pedal I would prefer long life to an LED
seeing some stuff in BST with an off switch is awesome, not sure why this hasn't happened before
but if I had a battery only pedal I would prefer long life to an LED
seeing some stuff in BST with an off switch is awesome, not sure why this hasn't happened before
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
PumpkinPieces wrote:Batteries are a pain and I can never keep track of which ones are dead.
This. The only thing I use a battery in is my tuner so I only have to run a single Onespot + the 5-point adapter to power the board.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I only use batteries, because the environment is lame.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I love the sound of fuzz with a battery especially a dolor store carbon one.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
D.o.S. wrote:I only use batteries, because the environment is lame.
a vote for batteries then
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
batteries for most fuzz I use. Gotta have an LED, so i can aim where to step 
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I have a battery in my tuner, but only so I can lend it to bands that don't own one. It's basically me helping the audience.
Power supply all day otherwise.
Power supply all day otherwise.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
theavondon wrote:I have a battery in my tuner, but only so I can lend it to bands that don't own one. It's basically me helping the audience.
Power supply all day otherwise.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
Power supply only but if I had the option to have a battery snap in my pedal at no extra charge, I'd take it.
Someone should figure out a cheap way to charge a NiHM battery in the pedal while its plugged in. Never hurts to have a back up power source.
Someone should figure out a cheap way to charge a NiHM battery in the pedal while its plugged in. Never hurts to have a back up power source.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I use batteries a lot. Voted yes.
No LED is cool for me too.
But i'm only Talking about fuzz/Overdrive/distortion boxes.
No LED is cool for me too.
But i'm only Talking about fuzz/Overdrive/distortion boxes.
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Re: battery snaps yes or no
I never use batteries, it just seems like such an antiquated way of powering my pedals. Kinda like the vinyl vs iPod debate, sure vinyl sounds better, but not enough to justify using the older tech.
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