Pedal board with or without power?

[C1-ocaster]

I wanted to avoid getting a bunch of pedals, but I've lost that battle.
Now I have something else to buy, sell, swap.

I'm looking at a pedal board made by SKB. It's simple with a velcro top to hold the pedals, and it has a 9v power strip to power the pedals. It's only about $100.
Are those any good?
By good I'm wondering if the power is clean?

I use a really nice quality Tripp-lite iso-block on the outlet. It's a filter and surge protection, pricey but very good quality.
So, I'm hoping that will help that board's power stay noise free.

The other option is to go with a non powered board and get a separate power supply of higher quality.
This option will cost more, but will probably be better quality.
Plus the PS I'm looking at has a 12V and 18V out on 2 ports.
My Fulltone Fulldrive II can handle 18V and actually sounds better with 18V.

Opinions and suggestions please!

 

[Enjolras56]

Go non-powered with your own choice of isolated tap power supply.

I owned the SKB PS-45 (which goes for $299 new) for a time which had its own strip for 3 wall warts plus 8 taps for on board power supply which was essentially a daisy chain in a big box.
At least n my experience and for what I had on the board it was noisy and got messy. Plus carrying it was a drag- it was so heavy on the power block side.

Sold it and got a Trailer Trash board with an MXR/CAE mc403 power supply and couldn't be happier. Same setup of pedals was dead quiet plus I was able to power pedals at 18v and even AC (Digitech Whammy) without wall warts or y-cables.

I think you're looking at the PS8? No personal experience with that unit- but I assume the power supply is similar to what I described above. Spend the extra money (maybe a used Pedaltrain Jr or Pt-2 with a Voodoo Lab or Cioks power supply) you'll be happier in the long run with a board that you can grow with, that has better flexibility for power, less risk for noise, better durability, and you can can wire neatly.

 

[rcm78]

I had an SKB Stage 5. I had some minor noise issues so I switched to pedaltrain 2 and Ciocks DC10. The board is more compact, and is noise free.

 

[GtarLover]

Go non-powered with your own choice of isolated tap power supply.
Spend the extra money (maybe a used Pedaltrain Jr or Pt-2 with a Voodoo Lab or Cioks power supply) you'll be happier in the long run with a board that you can grow with, that has better flexibility for power, less risk for noise, better durability, and you can can wire neatly.

This...

I used a Furman Velcro board with it's own power supply, yada yada. It was actually pretty good. Had a built-in handle and roller wheels for easy transport.
Still, if you want to cleanest board with a power supply that you choose, you gotta do-it-yourself.
Some good ideas here and I will second the Voodoo Power Plus, Dave Friedman is using a lot of those I believe.
No experience with the Ciocks, but heard good things about those as well.

Post pics when it's finished

 

[sixstringking713]

my pedalboard is literally a piece of 3/4" thick plywood with velcro on it.

I choose to run a 9VDC and a 18VDC wall brick that power all my pedals.

 

[C1-ocaster]

Thanks fella's.

The collective wisdom is separate iso power supply.
That is what I shall do.

The Fulltone Fulldrive II does sound better with 18v instead of the nominal 9v, so a separate iso power supply will give me that.

Thanks again.