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Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-1AC Pro Modular

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Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-1AC Pro Modular
£52
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Not very quiet at all
M. Eigenhart 21.03.2025
Suffering from noise issues in my setup I had traced down to a combination of an Artec Power Brick introducing extreme amounts of common mode noise, and a long cable run towards my amplifier bleeding that noise into the signal due to imperfect conductance across the shield, I sought to address this by getting shorter cables and a power supply that may inject less noise into my signal chain. The ISO-1AC Pro Modular however suffers from the same ills as many a non-isolated switch-mode pedal power supply, and while very marginally less noisy across the same cable run, it has proven very temperamental, introducing a high pitched whine whenever I interact with the guitar with a mere three analog pedals powered, and not even switched on, running into my amplifier, even when I shorten the final cable run to a mere 0.9m to eliminate most of the remaining common mode noise bleed. The sheer noisiness of the power proves to be a problem when powering anything floating as well, a tuner connected one-way to an isolated line out / fx send injects so much hum into the amplifier you can forget about playing anything. Of course, this will go for any low quality switch-mode power supply, but that particular use-case is even more doomed than with a daisy-chain or negative-linked brick, since in those scenarios at least the device is capable of sharing a ground and bleeding off most of the power supply noise. The isolation of the outputs from each other does the heavy lifting in keeping this power supply from letting pedals ruin each other's day, but if you're in a situation where the pedals aren't disagreeing with each other, and your high-gain amplifier simply disagrees with being connected to a high-noise switch-mode power supply of any kind, then this power supply seems to introduce more problems than it solves.
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Unavoidable hum/buzz noise (maybe I was just unlucky)
I like cheap gears with good sound 18.03.2024
I bought this product after checking the reviews, but contrary to the reviews, the unit I received (unfortunately) didn't meet the promised expectations. I bought another product from a well-known brand for thrice the price, and I saw the exact difference in silence between the cheap and expensive products.

Maybe it is actually the nature of this product, or I was unlucky and got an item of a problematic batch.
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Noise and crackles
QEM Studio 07.09.2024
I bought this thinking it will be a cheaper solution but it gives off a random strange crackling noise when it is powering all 5 pedals. Seems to be rated more than what it can actually handle.
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Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-1AC Pro Modular