Help with Digitech Whammy 5th gen. noise

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This unit has a hum. My options are - use a loop on my GCX, unplug the device on songs I don't use it for or get something that will eliminate the hum altogether. Will the Voodoo Lab AC power eliminate that hum? The Whammy is 9v 1300 mA.

I have a 9v 1500 mA power supply that came with a Lexicon LXP5, could I try that with the whammy? (That's the $200.00 question.)
 
Are you using the factory power supply? I know on my Digitech Drop pedal if I use anything but the factory PS I get an annoying high pitch whine. And I know the two pedals have some design similarities.
 
Where do you run the Whammy in your pedal chain? Does this happen when you only use the whammy with no other pedals?
 
You can try using a One Spot. I have ZERO noise with that one.. 9v 1700ma.. Might help.
 
I use the original power supply. It makes the hum sound even if it's the only pedal in the line. It's not super noisy, but my rig is super quiet, zero hiss or hum, no gates either, all Boogie and hand-picked, true and tried, pedals and cables.

I've had this Whammy unit for years, before that I had the 4th. gen. The 4th gen. sh!t the bed when I went to reset it. It lights up but that's about it. The 4th gen. is 12v and it was quiet.
 
Have you isolated it completely as the source of hum?

I had a serious hum issue when I was using my Helix in 4CM with my Power Station. The fix ended up being a $28 Behringer HD400. It just happened to be a weird grounding incompatibility between the Power Station and the Helix.

https://www.amazon.com/Behringer-HD400-Ultra-Compact-2-Channel-Destroyer/dp/B000KUD2G4
That could be a cheap (and returnable) option to try out.

I'd say before buying that Behringer unit, should we assume you've tried different amplifiers and cables?

I don't have any hum issues with my Whammy V. I use a Cioks Ciokolate power supply for my board without any issue.
 
It's DC so don't buy an AC power supply. The older units are AC.
 
I've used the 5th gen. unit for about two years and at least 6 different amp set ups, different guitars and such. The noise goes away when the unit is engaged. It is not a new issue, just something I want to take care of properly, hoping that someone here had the same issue with one of their pedals and found a solution. Is it an internal ground issue? Probably, but I don't know for fact. The wall wart is two prong. I've tried every conditioner I have.

Listening to the newest Korn and Dimebag got me inspired to put it back in the line, I'm loving it. I forgot how a ten second burst with the harmonizer in the middle of a solo makes some fans eyes bug-out. Brendan Small, the creator of Metalocalypse (Dethklok), used it so well in the theme, I went and bought one. Before that, I was like, "how the fuck does Dimebag do that?"

It was a year at least before I learned Van Halen used both hands. I was in tenth grade and we didn't have MTV, at my house, we had one TV, I had 5 sisters, no TV for me, guitar only. (No Black Sabbath, Hendrix or especially Steppinwolf's, "The Pusher" allowed at my house, seriously!) Nobody knew wtf EVH was doing in Eruption. We were told about it, (he uses two hands? huh? doesn't everyone?) but still, we were mystified until we were seeing it with our own two eyes, then it made sense.
 
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