Very handy video, cheers! Is the power bank you used the Anker one off Amazon? Gonna do this myself and don't want to mess up (never had pedals let alone board..)
Great video! I've been running my pedalboard this way for 6 years now and you're right about the incompatibility of some power banks. Then I discovered the Joyo JP-06 Power Noise Blocker ZGP, eight quid from Thomann or 15 quid from Amazon. It's a 5v to 9v converter but it's designed to work with any Power bank, it also has a filter and it's tiny. Another good feature is that it comes with 2 cables, centre negative and centre positive, saves you a bit of soldering.
Fantastic solution! I got an Anker brick for work and it just clicked with me this morning that I could use it to power pedals after I've decided to condense my current pedal board.
I'm using a hand warmer!!! No mains hassle and it lasts for ages. I do have a backup. I'm looking to buy a tc electronic Tube Pilot that needs 400mw. Hoping it will work 9k and still give decent time.
Your video is definitely the best i have seen on this and responsible for going down this route. However after a saga of trying to get a power bank with trickle charge into my country (northern ireland, for anyone reading you cannot order them online from online retailers such as amazon and the only way around it is ordering direct from Anker) i foundi got quite a lot of noise using a trebel biost pedal into my rack preamp. I was a bit disappointed. I have a digital speaker sim pedal that i used to power instead and this seemed fairly quiet when using the power bank. Not reapoy sure why it is with the treble boost pedal so if you can think of any reason why i would greatly appreciate it. Plan in future is to use power bank to power a noise gate pedal integrated into a small rack setup as the pedal is better than the onboard noise gate. Thanks for making this it is very useful and points out some important info for people.
@@DogsharkGPS well when I use the trebel boost into the front of the preamp that's actually the only thing using the power bank. Much much later in the chain there is a digital speaker SIM pedal but that's being powered off mains. Very strange indeed. The noise is hiss. If I go back to powering by mains the hiss goes away. Crazy. Still hoping I can make use of the power bank though. Might be just that one pedal. I'll stick an over drive in front later and see if I get the same thing (driver all the way down of course).
Seems to be that one pedal. Used a tube screamer type over drive in front and that was quiet as anything. Must be just that trebel booster pedal for some reason.
@@DogsharkGPS yeah it's like a rangemaster clone. I think the guy used something other than germanium diodes in it though can't remember what. It's a hissing noise I get from it when using with the power brick. It's as quiet as anything else when I use a power supply. Weirdly this pedal has no batter connection, it's mains only.
I got also this idea od having portable replica of my studio pedalboard. Thank you fór sharing info with with Power bank nôt working. Also have you considered to have speaker mounted on pedalboard? Im going to try to add little soundbar facing towards me, gonna connect it through mooer audiophile 😇
Well minimum would be none. If you mean what’s the most pedals you can run off this that would depend on the combined maximum current draw of all your pedals when turned on versus the available amperage of your power bank. Given most power banks are designed to fast charge mobile phones they typically output up to 2Amp. Some maybe even more. And your average analogue pedal draws around 200mA or under the rough answer would be about 10 pedals. But you should really do the maths of you want to test this properly.
Just some cheap generic thing off Amazon. Never had an issue like that with mine. The issue you’re having is probably because you have a mixture of digital and analogue pedals on the daisy chain. Disconnect the power from each pedal individually to figure out which is your culprit.
@@DogsharkGPS Thanks for the advice. None of my pedals are digital but it looks like my analog delay and fuzz pedal are noisy. Odd though, as they work fine with my old but stupidly heavy and not very practical Biyang pedal power which has isolated outputs. All the rest are fine though and sound great. I've ordered one of those Joyo filters mentioned in another comment, so will see if that makes a difference. Either way, the Anker brick you recommend is an absolute belter and much better than using batteries.
Hi @dogshark, thanks for sharing your experiences. So valuable. I want to apply it as the power source for a sustainiac pickup. Have you already tried this? Any suggestions? Thanks so much
Doubtful. Under voltage can effect all kinds of things in an audio circuit. Anything with diode or LED clipping for example. You might think it sounds ok but it will sound different from how it was designed to. Don't see any point in this when it's so easy to power something correctly. @@ZeginMakesMusic
Powering this pedalboard it literally lasts for weeks. I use it for jam nights, rehearsals and home jamming so I don’t have to take out my big board. I’ve only had to charge it three times since I got it.
Hi dude, I'm looking for a USB powerbank to power a TC Helicon Acoustic Play on the street for busking, that will last for 6 hours + with as many USB ports as possible in case I decide to add other pedals at a future date I've found out I need to buy a Ripcord USB to 12V DC power cable that will power the TC unit from a USB port, but I'm just unsure as to what powerbank to buy, do you have any recommendations as to which one I should get that will give me a good supply of power for busking say upto about £150? Cheers man
Hi Mr Cheswick. I'm not really an expert on powerbanks as you can see I bought the wrong one first before getting one that worked well for me. And I was looking at the bottom end in the budget scale so didn't even look at any in your price range. But I know a bit about electronics so what I would recommend is you look to get one that provides the highest amount of mAh you can get. The higher the mAh the longer you'll get out of it.
@@DogsharkGPS Thanks man, I've seen a few online for between £30 - £60 that have 20,000 MAH, but I'm thinking to myself..."They seem too cheap, where's the catch" ha ha, other guitarists who do busking have said I need at a bare minimum 10,000 MAH to power the TC Acoustic Play as it's 12V unit, and not 9 volts like your standard boss compressor, distortion pedals Do you think I should just blow my budget on the highest MAH then, cos I do plan to add a couple of extra pedals in the future, like a Ditto+ looper and maybe a Beat Buddy drum machine, so I guess the more I add to it, the more it's going to drain the power? If I can power 3 units for 6 hours + then I'll be happy, but at the moment, I only really need one USB port
