Pedals cutting in and out - help

[IhaveAbellyButton]

All my guitar pedals are cutting in and out, and really cut in and out when I have my foot on any of their buttons (not just when the buttons are surpressed, only when I am just touching them). It's very odd, and I've never really seen anything like it.

Is it a power supply problem? Do I have too many pedals on one power supply?

 

[mboogman]

Sounds like a ground issue. I had a similar issue, albeit isolated to one pedal. Turns out I had some loose nuts on the input/output jacks and footswitches. What kind of power supply are you using?

 

[IhaveAbellyButton]

I'm using a g-bus 8 by Gator.

 

[Marshall Law]

sounds like a loose nut behind the guitar to me

 

[mboogman]

sounds like a loose nut behind the guitar to me

I think most of us have that problem!

I'm using a g-bus 8 by Gator.

If it's a non-isolated power supply, which I think it is, there could be a short somewhere. I would start with one pedal plugged in at a time, and verify that it works, then add another, etc. etc. Make sure that you're not pulling too much current from the g-bus. It's pretty easy to find the current draw of most pedals, and anything that's more handmade, the builders are usually pretty quick to respond with help about their creations.

FWIW, I mentioned that I had a similar issue. I should add that it happened to two different pedals from different companies, and both of them told me to do the same thing, (tighten all the nuts, input/output and switch) and it fixed the issue both times.

$.02

 

[IhaveAbellyButton]

Thanks alot for your help. I'll try everything out.