Pedalboard cabling - patch cables and power cables parallel - bad idea?

mouthmw

mouthmw

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When I did some cable management on my board, I tied my longer patch cable with my daisy chain, to have things neat and clean. I did read about having audio and power cables close together in parallel as a bad idea, and that it could introduce noise.


My example:
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Notice my daisy chain tied together with the patch cable that goes from my octave pedal to my W&C TFR.

Is this a bad idea?

The daisy chained pedals (all but the TC Repeater) are powered by 1Spot. TC Repeater has its own supply.

I haven't noticed any noise, but it is a rather recent board change and I haven't been through a lot of venues with it so far.
 
#2
I have never noticed any noise introduced depending on the manner in which the cables are organized. The only thing that could introduce noise here is the One Spot as many on here have complained about it in the past. I would recommend the One Spot be replaced with a power supply from Voodoo Labs, however, nothing is broken here so no need to replace anything.
 
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Gearhead17 said:
I have never noticed any noise introduced depending on the manner in which the cables are organized. The only thing that could introduce noise here is the One Spot as many on here have complained about it in the past. I would recommend the One Spot be replaced with a power supply from Voodoo Labs, however, nothing is broken here so no need to replace anything.
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No problem here daisy chaining my 7 pedals which are all analog low mA draw anyways. My digital delay has isolated power supply so my board is quiet. I would have gone a single quality power brick route like Truetone CS7 but I can't fit it on my board plus it keeps things cleaner (and less weight) to just keep pedals on it.

I asked my guitarist who is a tech freak/amp/pedal builder and he says mixing insulated power cables with patch cables creates no noise or humm so I'm good.
 
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I do similar, although not nearly that tidy. Have never gotten any noise with either a 1-Spot or an isolated power supply. Only noise I ever get is when I share the Pitch Fork with other effects on a non-isolated line. But I ran a butt-ton of effects on a 1-Spot with wires strewn everywhere and tied together with each other and never got any noise at all as long as I didn't add the Pitch Fork.
 
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JimmyM said:
I do similar, although not nearly that tidy. Have never gotten any noise with either a 1-Spot or an isolated power supply. Only noise I ever get is when I share the Pitch Fork with other effects on a non-isolated line. But I ran a butt-ton of effects on a 1-Spot with wires strewn everywhere and tied together with each other and never got any noise at all as long as I didn't add the Pitch Fork.
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Yea I get some tap tempo noise bleed/humm if I daisy chain digital delay pedals with the rest, so I gotta keep an extra wall wart for that but it's no big deal. I'm thinking of tidying it up just a smidge more by getting some velcro ties so I can velcro the mid cable section to the board.
 
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