V quick question about power for amp+fx

[chamelious]

Simply, does it make a difference if my power adapter for my stomp units and my amp, are plugged into separate outlets or not?

My power adapter is the official boss one with a daisy chain but still creates noise.

 

[slowmotion]

How is your power adapter "creating noise"? Do you mean you can hear noise in your amp when you plug in the power adapter? Have you checked if it happens with batteries?

But no, it shouldn't really matter to a huge extent, you can buy power conditioners but realistically they shouldn't be required if the place you're playing in has decent wiring.

 

[chamelious]

Yeah, adding noise only noticeable when the high gain channels on. A cheaper adapter i tried added ridiculous levels of noise, i assumed the boss one wouldn't add any but was wrong.

 

[slowmotion]

Sorry this is off track, but what pedals are you using? Some plastic shell pedals are more suseptible to noise. I've also found digital pedals really do NOT like otherwise quiet and cool running switchmode power adapters. I actually just use batteries now, while it's a bit of a waste in a way, my pedalboard is small enough to get away with them (tuner, noise gate, eq or overdrive, footswitch, kinda lame hehe)... but no extra noise.

Maybe have a look at your cabling too... well sheilded cables are a must...

Failing that the Boss NS-2 noise gate has a nifty effects loop of it's own where you can put your noisiest pedals in there and it can tell what's guitar and what's noise, might be an option?

 

[chamelious]

As of tomorrow my effects will just be the aforementioned NS-2. a korg pitch black tuner and a boss dd-3 delay.

 

[Zaphod B]

Wall warts are notoriously noisy, but some are better than others.

To answer your question, I think it's a good idea to have everything that's in the signal path to be on a circuit with a common ground. This doesn't necessarily mean the same wall outlet, but for sure on the same breaker-protected circuit. Using the same outlet can avoid the possiblilty that some numbnuts electrician has wired the two outlets differently.

 

[slowmotion]

As of tomorrow my effects will just be the aforementioned NS-2. a korg pitch black tuner and a boss dd-3 delay.

Oh right. Well, can't see any of them being at fault for noise really; and if Boss supplies a noisy adapter for it's own pedals, well, sheesh.

Maybe try the delay in the NS-2 loop...?

Does this happen everywhere you play?

 

[chamelious]

Oh right. Well, can't see any of them being at fault for noise really; and if Boss supplies a noisy adapter for it's own pedals, well, sheesh.

Maybe try the delay in the NS-2 loop...?

Does this happen everywhere you play?

TBH at gigs ive never noticed as im usually concentrating too hard on other stuff. Putting delay in the NS2 loop means the delay itself is gated.

 

[ocnor]

Are you running the NS-2 in the amps FX loop so that it will kill the noise from your high gain preamp? Running it in front of the amp renders it worthless for killing noise. You should also be running the delay after the NS-2 in the FX loop.

 

[chamelious]

Are you running the NS-2 in the amps FX loop so that it will kill the noise from your high gain preamp? Running it in front of the amp renders it worthless for killing noise. You should also be running the delay after the NS-2 in the FX loop.

No, i just use the NS-2 to kill feedback, not noise. + i haven't even had the delay in the effects loop as i cant be arsed with 2 extra cables for the sake of one pedal.