Donner DP-1 Power Supply Review- 1 Year Later Follow Up 

Original Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PciRloAplu8.html

Great review very well done I think this confirmed for me this is the power supply I want also

Finally, someone who understands me 1:28

I love just how fucking normal of a guy you are lol. No glam, no stupid crap. Just an honest review.

Thanks for the review. Ordering the Donner DP-1 power supply and inexpensive small pedal board I'm putting together. Only using 2 pedals (looper & vocal harmonizer) so this should work for me. You are correct about the noise thing. Can be anything. I know some pros who use this power supply and they are not having noise issues at all with the Donner. Thanks again. I know how much work goes into making these video's. 🎸🎸🎸

i have one and it's a no brainer for the buck. i use it in my medium board for rehearsals. i put 10 pedals and everything works great. that's my 2 cents.

I've been considering trying one of these and while I've read a handful of horror stories this gives me confidence to try this one out which seriously cuts down on my costs.

Of this power supply, of which I have owned several, I will say this.... Noise and reliability, in my experience, will always rely on the kinds, and number of pedals, you have on your rig. With smaller rigs, such as yours, there shouldn't be too many problem; if any. Especially if you're running micro pedals. However, once your pedals move up in size and quality, that story changes significantly. If you use up all of the slots, you might get away with no issues, but again, once your pedals become complex, if you tube pedals, full sized pedals, this power supply will start getting challenged. I have a D'Addario XPN2 Pedalboard and it's totally expanded and totally loaded. This power supply began to work overtime and began having issues early on, so, I added another Donner power supply and split the power between the two. This fixed it for a while, but I found that fuzz pedals just stopped fuzzing! My eventual solution was to add three power supplies to the rig and splitting power between all three. Each power supply is working at low capacity and each pedal works fine. This however, is a costly solution and not for everyone. Still, my rig has no longer has issues and every pedal works as it should....No noise, no nothing! Keep in mind that this has been my experience and I still think this power supply is okay, especially with a smaller rig. And, I am aware that I had these issues because I'm just one of those guys who just needs to take every pedal he owns to a gig (I am working on that)! Great video, thumbs up!

I was getting noise from this power supply. I had it plugged into a surge protector that was powering a fluorescent light also. I found that the light was causing the noise so I plugged it directly to the wall but was still getting noise. The outlet was right next to my amp. I plugged it into the wall further away from the amp and now it is fine.

I just ordered one of these. Here is my thoughts on the "noise" issues that people complain about. If you want noiseless then go spend thousands of dollars on custom gear and while you are at it hire yourself a full time guitar tech. For me this is in my budget and it probably won't make no worst noise than what i do with my guitar. Hell it might be a good fill in effect.

Had mine for two years and using 12 pedals, 2 are daisies. Dead quite and no issues. People will always be suckers paying more for image

"fucken, go leafs go" might be the most Canadian thing I've ever heard in a music review video! but like... same. GLG!!

yeah, I'm going to get this power supply. The only problem is it's way more expensive to get in Australia. Local guitar store sells this power supply for $200au I found it on ebay for $125au delivered from a Japanese seller. To get the good power supplies they're like $400au Thanks for the original review and follow up👍

This video made me laugh lol thank you bro

Thanks, I just ordered a DP-2 that was on sale for $38, I only have 6 pedals and none of them are high current draw. I figure for that price its worth a shot over the more expensive bricks, but if nothing else I'm only out $38 and I can try something else later if necessary.

Hi Colin there are alot of internet trolls with negative comments to throw out there, for what reason I am unsure? Most people dont understand what isolated power supply means or what they actually do. Just because it is isolated doesnt mean your rig will be completley noiseless. Whatever noises you had before you bought your power supply will still be there after you install it. People get an isolated power supply and assume it will fix all pre existing unwanted noise, but it doesnt work and they automatically assume it's just another a shitty power supply lol. Or maybe they do know what isolated is, but have no idea where the noise comes from. As you pointed out. I just thought I would put an end to the madness. As there are many people who clearly are confused. Is it isolated? Yes it is No it's not Lol ok I own a DONNER DP3 power supply. it is every bit isolated as good as my voodoo lab PS. Which fried after 3 years BTW and my DONNER still working strong after 4 years. If ANYONE wants to leave negative comments and say that the donner ps is not isolated, they clearly did not test the circuit with a MULTIMETER for continuity between each separate ISOLATED power cable to the next one beside it and so forth. A Multimeter doesnt lie folks. Shove your comments where the sun dont shine and test your donner I have no doubt if you test it with a meter you will infact find that each power lead is isolated from the next. If it is advertised as isolated it is isolated. Now I did not ever own a DP1 or DP2 but my DP3 is built like a tank and still running. Far longer than my voodoo lab which cost 2 times as much I might add. Noise equals 1 crappy cables/patch cords 2 low grade guitar electronics 3 single coil pickups 4 dirty connections 5 your Amp or pedals 6 routing of cables 7 other cables near and around your board 8 the wall power itself and environment All of which Colin has stated in this video. I have a few noisy pedals and I know it's the pedal some are just noisy but it's only when they are on. Turn them off or roll off the volume folks. Thanks for the video colin No leafs No Maybe next year

Everybody is looking for silent pedals and power supplies. That's what gates are for! Anyway, thanks for the funny video. Got me chuckling a few times. I think I'm gonna try this power supply. The others brands are just breaking my ass $$$.

Should I go with the DP-1, DP-2, or DP-3? I want to go isolated because it’s gonna keep my pedals quiet and I want to start a board. Where should I start?

I had a behringer powered board and another cheap daisy chain for my loop. Had an awful hum. I got the dp1 and it got 10x better, still a tiny bit of hum which isolated to my Mesa 5 band eq. I’m going to try a battery in that to see if it is indeed the power supply or not. I just ordered a furman power conditioner because I am getting hum without any pedals too. Curious to see how that helps the entire situation

With the countless forum posts, and amazon reviews ive read, ive learned that if my power supply is unisolated, im basically a waste of space amateur pedal collector. Ive had a Caline power supply on my board for years, which isnt a truly isolated source. Ive had no issues, other than the dread ive felt from using said device. Should i consider an upgrade to donner? Can you hook me up with a featured artist discount?

Had issues with the Donner after a year, it simply could no longer power my setup (7 pedals) . Signal starting cutting and I had to unplug it and plug it back to get a signal Wich would later die after a couple of minutes. Had this happen live out of all the places. Decided to invest in a 1 spot cs6 instead.

Whats the benefit of having a 3 prong extension cable in your pedalboard.

I've had two of these crap out, using 4 of the 100mA and one 500mA outputs. yes it's a bit noisy too. This works but if UR playing a gig U need Reliability and I'm not seeing it with this pedal. I'm shopping for a better PS. The price is good if U dont need it to be reliable or quite.

I have been using four power supplies. Three of my dozen+ pedals need strict Isolation, they have independent power supplies, the others all share a daisy chain. I don't have noise with that setup. There have been demonstrations with meters that show the channels on this inexpensive Donner are not isolated, the unit lacks transformers. Others demo a pedal that absolutely require an independent power source, and noise is very evident using this Donner. I honestly believe you don't have any pedals that require an independent supply, I can see from experience that most of them are of that type.

fucking go leafs go.. classic

Still going strong?