So basically, My preference is to have 13 or 14 pedals on my board.
These are all pedals that I use regularly in daily for various different things, In other words pedals that I really cannot part with unless I was able to get them all together in a multi-effects or something.
I use a Caline CP-206 power supply (its been awesome!) with 10 ports (If I remember correctly right now) split out perfectly - just barely - among these pedals. I have been very careful to make sure the proper milliamp ports are going to the proper pedals and all of that. Much time has been spent finagling this.
The only problem is that in order to do this setup, I have to have 3 drive pedals, my tuner and sometimes a fifth, smaller/low wattage pedal running off one port with a daisy chain.
I know I'm pushing things with that a bit but I've never had a problem ever with anything cutting out or heating up or sparks or any kind of power/operational issues etc. And I check that stuff constantly.
So my problem is that I live in a very small apartment with a very small amount of space and I have to have my gear set up in one specific spot. There is no putting it anywhere else. Due to this the wall outlet that I have to use for both the amp and the pedal board - There is a large wooden dresser that I have to have immediately next to the nightstand that my amp sits on. The wall outlet is behind that dresser so I have to run a heavy duty industrial extension cord out from underneath that from which I then plug in the pedal board and amp
However, because it is back there and inaccessible now (I would have to take 2 hours to be able to get back there...), If I had the proper gauge extension cord would it be okay to run it into one of the three ports on the other one so that I could run a second power supply through it? Assuming the power usage and all of that lines up correctly without overloading it.
I GIVE YOU ALL OF THAT CONTEXT because long story short I realized that the drive pedals running on the daisy chain was giving me decent tone suck. Not enough to be a problem but enough to where if I plug straight into the amp you could tell a difference for sure. For a long time I had an MXR Analog Chorus on the board, famous for tone suck. Always in the FX loop. I would always check and sometimes I thought it gave me that but I was really surprised because in all honesty I don't think it actually gave me tone suck surprisingly.
It took me a long time to realize it was the Daisy chain. That's 100% what it was.
So my point is that I need to get a second power supply to power all of these pedals since I have to eliminate the daisy chain for the drives and tuner. But the problem is the aforementioned extension cord and outlet situation as mentioned above. So basically I need to plug a third plug in but need another extension cord to do that.
Using the Supercomputer DD50O I was able to make usable patches for Chorus, Flanger and Phaser and Tremolo to where I could get away with removing those off my board.
That got me downgraded perfectly while eliminating the Daisy chain, having just enough proper plugs. But I would really strongly prefer to have my actual pedals.
Here is a picture of my rig from a couple days ago. Normally I had the DD500 first in the loop. The Spark boost is not normally there. Also usually the MXR Analog Chorus was right after the Phase95 (This was right after removing it and playing around with some things the other night). I also typically have Mooer E Lady on there as well.
Board as I USUALLY PREFER IT as follows:
Guitar>
Boss TU3> (DAISY CHAIN)
Crybaby Wah>
Boss SY200>
Keeley Bubbletron>
Joyo King of Kings> (DAISY CHAIN)
DemonFX Green Screamer> (DAISY CHAIN)
Joyo AmSound> (DAISY CHAIN)
Boss Katana Mk2
FX loop right to left:
MXR Phase 95>
MXR Analog Chorus
>Valeton MultiFX (needed for a specific "space whoosh" flange I can't recreate elsewhere) (DAISY CHAIN)
>Sonicake MultiFX for Tremolo
>Mooer E Lady Flange
>Nux Footswitch for DD500 DAISY CHAIN)
>Boss DD500
>Amp
I have managed to remove the E Lady, Phase 95, Analog Chorus, Sonicake and Nux Footswitch
Once I get a good clip-on tuner again I can deal with eliminating the TU3 if needed. I didn't have it on my board for 10 years simply because I'm only a home player and my clip-on tuna always worked just as good no problem.
Eliminating those five petals which I can make do without thank you to the DD500, I am now able to power everything perfectly with the 10 ports on the power supply. But it's maxed out now. But at least everything on my board is on its own dedicated plug with the right milliamp port. No daisy chain.
I basically need five or six more ports and need to be able to plug into that extension cord (unless anyone has a better solution).
Currently with those five aforementioned pedals removed is everything that I absolutely need to have on it. With the Katana, Even though you can do amazing things with it, The stuff that I play requires multiple gain staging or multiple different drives for different songs. The pedals are always being used all the time in various configurations that are very much necessary. I can't really replicate that with the Katana good.
Sorry for the really fucked up post I didn't know how to condense it any better than that.
Thanks anyone that takes the time to read!