Multiple effects in one box

Started by deadspeaker, November 29, 2008, 05:59:51 PM

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deadspeaker

Are there any precautions I need to take if I want to put a Dr. Boogie, BSIABII, a cab sim, and a power supply in the same box? Do I need to shield them from each other?

Ronsonic


For shielding only the usual warnings about high level signals running along clean.

Some power supply decoupling would be good. something as simple as coming off the the regulator and first filter cap with some resistors of a hundred or more ohms followed by a cap at the power supply input of each device.
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petemoore

  Two high gain pedals ? You might want to try the 'other' bypass wiring, so that the input of the HG circuit[s are held at ground when in bypass.
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deadspeaker

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I was planing on using a Millennium bypass for each with the output from each switch going to the input of the next switch. All the grounds would go to one point on the chassis. Besides that, it will be wired as if they were in 3 separate boxes. I'm reading about decoupling right now. Thanks for the tip.

P.S. I'm using the tonepad power supply minus the jacks. http://www.tonepad.com/getFile.asp?id=111
Can I put 3 resistors after Vout(or just solder them where the jack should be on the layout) , connect a wire to the end of each resister, and then have those wires go to caps at the input of each effect board?

deadspeaker

I read this article http://www.electronicpeasant.com/circuits/decouple.txt on decoupling. I'm assuming that I should use the very last method mentioned. If I set the tonepad power supply to run at 12 volts, what resistor/cap combination should I use on the three pedals? And should I use a large cap as well as a smaller one?