OCD and Power

I wonder about this same scenerio with batteries even though I power them with a Voodoo PP2. My pedal board often times sits for hours in very cold weather or in the belly of a plane. It's got to zap the hell out the batteries. Therefore what effect does it have on the pedal?

 

+1 on the fresh batteries; I'm in the works of getting a pedal boad together. I haven't tried the fulltone pedals with a power supply yet.

 

i use an OCD with a DC Brick power supply and i run it at 18v rather than 9v......sounds amazing.

 

I have a couple of pedals that I use the PP II "sag" function on (BYOC Screamer and a Sans Amp Original). I set the voltage down to about what a real 9v battery is (8.6-8.8v). I can hear a difference. They seem warmer and less edgy. I also run my Dunlop Wah on about 8v. Kills the spiky toe down sound a little. Power really does make a difference!

 

I use solar power, but my tone suffers a tad on cloudy gigs.

I was working on a hamster cage turbine power supply, but come to find out he only runs when for Bare Naked Ladies, whoda thunk it?

I have a pedal that powers up when you shake it. It's a modified Swollen Pickle.

I hooked up my klon to a bug zapper one time, and on a warm night I could get this great tone every time a bug died. The bigger bugs were reserved for solos of course. Used small mice for the extended Freebird version..

I can keep this up if need be.

btw great idea on the wah pedal mdd59!

 

I run my OCD v3 at 18vdc...very cool!

 

Thanks! I just found out that Teese adds a resistor in his Wizard (?) wah to change the tone. Lowering the volts really does change the sound!!

 

This pedal is so loud at a minimal pedal volume setting at 9v as it is. I haven't tried running it on higher levels of juice but I can't imagine what it would be like. Are you guys having to cut the pedal volume even further when running it at a higher voltage? Are you running at the HP or LP setting?

 

No, If I understand you correctly, were talking about less voltage. Dropping from the standard 9V to 8V will round out the highs and probably drop the overall volume a tad. More compression and less headroom may result. More V may not be suitable for some pedals or wahs as it may fry the buggers if they dont like it.

I thought the Box of Rock sounded better at 8.4V and the OCD at 12V. Most pedals will sound better at designed voltage due to being tuned that way off the bench. But other pedals like fuzzs sound great at low volts that simulate dying batteries ( lower voltage ) allthough I think the low voltage of a dying battery reacts slower and differently than a power supply at the same V. Insignificant. Power supplys are more consistent.

Id like to know if the klon would run at 12 volts....