......this is gonn be an interesting couple of hours, im gonna ride up to the store tomorow ASAP, until then......

Share your experiences when you've ran out of batteries for your footpedal at a very very important time. eg, gig.

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riley

If you were gigging id assume you would be using a power supply? if not id hope you would be prudent enough to have a spare set.

No stories, because after the first time it a battery went out, I realized I had t keep some extra ones on hand so in case there was anything important going on, I would not be without. Once I started using a few pedals, I looked into getting a power supply, so I haven't had to worry about a battery for pedals for years now...

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RAMA LAMA FA FA FA

I use one of these
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/ ... sku=150373

So far it powers everything from my BYOC kit boxes to my vintage boxes and even my 1973 Pignose without a hitch. I learned my lesson ages ago.

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Riley,

After 20+ years of playing and going through several hundred dollars in 9 volt batteries, I decided to purchace a Boss Tu-2. I think Boss has the Tu-3 that does the same think and is the same size as most other stomp boxes. I do believe there are other brands with similar products. It serves as a guitar tuner and a power supply box. You do need to be able to plug into AC current and have little ac cables chained fro box to box. This is usually the start of building an pedal board.

Until you are able to get one, buy extra 9 volt batteries and carry them with you when you are out playing, just in case your boxes decide to go out.

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

+1

I used pedals in the pre-adapter days and only had one die on me and that was only at a practice so I learned from that to have at least one battery per pedal for backup.BTW a few years ago G.P. mag did a comparison on 9V batteries and found that the Panasonic Alkaline batteries had the highest initial voltage(9.4 V) and was the longest lasting of all the popular 9V batteries.Of course things may have changed in the interim.I wait for battery multi-packs to go on sale and stock up on them. I have to use 2 9V batteries on my 18V original Electric Mistress and find that the sound is a lot better -at least with that pedal-than with an adapter.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

My first pedals predated alkaline batteries LOL. They used carbon 9v batteries ans till sound a little better with them. That ONE SPOT adapter works really well and you can run up to 20 pedals on it.

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