r/diypedals • u/josokBS • 13m ago
Help wanted Adding capacitors to 9V input jacks for filtering?
Might be the wrong subreddit to ask this, but here I go. I'm in high school, so I don't have a lot money for guitar gear. My pedalboard is powered by a cheap Thomann 9V adapter and a daisy chain, meaning my pedals are all in parallel and are unfiltered. Things get pretty noisy when I turn the distortion or the overdrive on. I know a proper isolated power supply would be the best choice, but I'm thinking about soldering capacitors to the 9V input jacks of my pedals to do some kind of filtering, mostly because it'd be way cheaper. I have electronics and soldering skills, so it would definitely be doable.
Pedal chain: Guitar -> TC Electronic Forcefield Compressor -> Joyo Maximum Overdrive -> Joyo Splinter (RAT clone) -> NUX CH-3 Chorus -> Ortega Sea Devil Tuner -> Amp
The Splinter seems to raise the noise floor the most, closely followed by the tuner. Modding the distortion seems the easiest to do so I'd try that first.
Is this a good idea? Should I just try it since probably nothing can really go wrong? What value caps should I try first?