BCB-60 Power/Current Problem?
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2022 9:20 pm
Hey guys!
The electricity/current draw part of amps & pedals has always been my weak side and I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on what my problem is here. I bought a used BCB-60 recently and I was super excited to get it up and running. The power supply adapter that came with the BCB-60 was a Roland PSB-1U and then the standard 7-pedal daisy chain cable. When I hooked everything up and turned my amp on there was a very unpleasant "buzz" and it sounded like my guitar sound was operating with an extra 25% of "juice", which made it very sensitive to feedback, harmonic distortion & wolf tones.
Before buying the BCB-60 I used a lesser amount of pedals (TU-3, SD-1 & NS-2) straight on the floor with an Boss PSA 230S Power Supply and Boss PCS-20A, which has always worked flawless. So I tried switching the PSB-1U cable to the Boss PSA 230S instead and the guitar signal "kind of" went back to normal, but something still doesn't sound 100% right.
I have tried googling around and reading up on the issue myself and the majority of answers is that the daisy chain most likely would be the problem. One major argument is that the daisy chain loses power for every pedal that it runs through and you can tell this by the red "Check"-light being slightly dimmed out. That is actually the case for my SD-1 in this configuration, but it still sounds weird to me since the BCB-60 is designed to power pedals with a daisy chain. Some people wrote about differences in mA between the pedals and the power supply adapter. The PSA 230S is 500 mA and the total sum of my pedals adds up to 247 mA, so I'm halfway there and it shouldn't be an issue. I'm considering that the PSB-1U might be faulty, but there is nothing that visually indicates that it could be.
Here is some info as well about my guitar rig and my music style to paint the big picture. I play down tuned death metal and I'm running a pair of Seymour Duncan Invaders in an Epiphone Explorer through a Peavey 6505 with 2 double stacked 4x12 cabinets.
Yes, I know that Invaders + 6505 is a great recipe for a noisy and untamable guitar signal, but I've had it fairly tamed before.
I am also aware that the 6505 FX Loop is very famous for being pretty bad & noisy, (I can personally confirm this! )
I'm attaching a picture of how I connected everything in case that might be of any help.
TU-3, GE-7, NS-2 & SD-2 goes to the front of the amp
DD-8 & RV-6 goes in the FX Loop of the amp
And the NS-2 is connected with the 4-cable method.
Any help or thoughts on this will be highly appreciated!
The electricity/current draw part of amps & pedals has always been my weak side and I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on what my problem is here. I bought a used BCB-60 recently and I was super excited to get it up and running. The power supply adapter that came with the BCB-60 was a Roland PSB-1U and then the standard 7-pedal daisy chain cable. When I hooked everything up and turned my amp on there was a very unpleasant "buzz" and it sounded like my guitar sound was operating with an extra 25% of "juice", which made it very sensitive to feedback, harmonic distortion & wolf tones.
Before buying the BCB-60 I used a lesser amount of pedals (TU-3, SD-1 & NS-2) straight on the floor with an Boss PSA 230S Power Supply and Boss PCS-20A, which has always worked flawless. So I tried switching the PSB-1U cable to the Boss PSA 230S instead and the guitar signal "kind of" went back to normal, but something still doesn't sound 100% right.
I have tried googling around and reading up on the issue myself and the majority of answers is that the daisy chain most likely would be the problem. One major argument is that the daisy chain loses power for every pedal that it runs through and you can tell this by the red "Check"-light being slightly dimmed out. That is actually the case for my SD-1 in this configuration, but it still sounds weird to me since the BCB-60 is designed to power pedals with a daisy chain. Some people wrote about differences in mA between the pedals and the power supply adapter. The PSA 230S is 500 mA and the total sum of my pedals adds up to 247 mA, so I'm halfway there and it shouldn't be an issue. I'm considering that the PSB-1U might be faulty, but there is nothing that visually indicates that it could be.
Here is some info as well about my guitar rig and my music style to paint the big picture. I play down tuned death metal and I'm running a pair of Seymour Duncan Invaders in an Epiphone Explorer through a Peavey 6505 with 2 double stacked 4x12 cabinets.
Yes, I know that Invaders + 6505 is a great recipe for a noisy and untamable guitar signal, but I've had it fairly tamed before.
I am also aware that the 6505 FX Loop is very famous for being pretty bad & noisy, (I can personally confirm this! )
I'm attaching a picture of how I connected everything in case that might be of any help.
TU-3, GE-7, NS-2 & SD-2 goes to the front of the amp
DD-8 & RV-6 goes in the FX Loop of the amp
And the NS-2 is connected with the 4-cable method.
Any help or thoughts on this will be highly appreciated!