atrox
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Ok. I'm now officially done with my Friedman sponsored mid-life crisis
This thing is quiet! My old Pedaltrain setup with the Voodoo Labs power supply had issues with ground loops using the 4CM that forced me to use an Ebtech hum eliminator for the loop. Even then, i had weird noise. Most likely due to the transformer in the power supply and pedals over it.
Anyway... Yeah. It was pricey, but i could afford it and and it's worth it to me. This thing slays. It came with the Friedman Power grid (10 isolated switchable power inputs. No transformer inside and is 110 and 220 compatible) and the Friedman Buffer Bay. It came with more than enough things to organize cables and a bunch of power cables. All very simple to setup. The gig bag is really really nice too.
The buffer bay uses all Neutrik TRS connectors, except the buffered input which is mono for obvious reasons. The buffer can be turned on and off, but i found it to be MUCH better than the ES-8's buffer, so i leave it on and turned off the ES-8's buffer. No ground loops like my old board had. Very happy with this thing.
I did throw in my line isolator for the front of the amp. It basically will do the same as the Ebtech did before just for some extra security with noise. My practice spot has some questionable electric grounding things going on. So it's in there, but at home, i noticed no difference with or without the line isolator. That was not true with my old board. I NEEDED that Ebtech anywhere.
It could probably be neater for sure, but it's good enough for me and new cables are hard to manipulate.
This thing is quiet! My old Pedaltrain setup with the Voodoo Labs power supply had issues with ground loops using the 4CM that forced me to use an Ebtech hum eliminator for the loop. Even then, i had weird noise. Most likely due to the transformer in the power supply and pedals over it.
Anyway... Yeah. It was pricey, but i could afford it and and it's worth it to me. This thing slays. It came with the Friedman Power grid (10 isolated switchable power inputs. No transformer inside and is 110 and 220 compatible) and the Friedman Buffer Bay. It came with more than enough things to organize cables and a bunch of power cables. All very simple to setup. The gig bag is really really nice too.
The buffer bay uses all Neutrik TRS connectors, except the buffered input which is mono for obvious reasons. The buffer can be turned on and off, but i found it to be MUCH better than the ES-8's buffer, so i leave it on and turned off the ES-8's buffer. No ground loops like my old board had. Very happy with this thing.
I did throw in my line isolator for the front of the amp. It basically will do the same as the Ebtech did before just for some extra security with noise. My practice spot has some questionable electric grounding things going on. So it's in there, but at home, i noticed no difference with or without the line isolator. That was not true with my old board. I NEEDED that Ebtech anywhere.
It could probably be neater for sure, but it's good enough for me and new cables are hard to manipulate.