Diago Powerstation

This a digital switching power supply. It will provide 3000ma of power to any amount of 9v DC pedals.

It is a no brainer - works the same as any single ended power supply, with a daisy chain cable going to 5 Boss style plugs.

I like the fact that this has 240v cable which is detachable from the transformer unit. This makes packing it up easier. It will accept pretty much any worldwide voltage and change it to 9v DC.

It claims to be silent in operation, which I have found to be true (exceptions noted below).

I power 4 home built Tonepad pedals - a TS9/808, a Ross compressor, a Boss CE-2 chorus, and an MXR phase 90 pedal.

Each of these pedals is either a gain pedal or a modulation pedal. If there were any added noise by the power supply, I'd hear it using one of these. I also run my guitar through a Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Classic on its own power supply (16DC), which would again accentuate any hum or added noise in the other pedals.

I'd like to say now that I don't get any unwanted noise from the Diago Powerstation - at all.

The exception is when I try to run a Line 6 Echo park on a 9volt chain with other pedals. There is a ton of noise which makes the pedal unusable. This is a design fault of the Echo park which requires it to run on its own isolated power supply. This is not the fault of the Powerstation. If you run a few of these 9v Line6 pedals, you'd need either an expensive isolated power supply like the Voodoo labs pedal power 2, with several outputs, or you'd have loads of individual 'wall warts' - I'd say that this is a design oversight by Line6 I'm afraid. Diago do state on their website that these pedals will do this.

I will stress again though that this adds no noise to any properly designed pedal.

There are no moving parts, I don't expect this to blow up any time soon. It is certainly more reliable than having loads of individual power supplies, and definitely better designed than a standard 'wall wart' type power supply.

I have emailed Diago in the past with a couple of questions, and they have been prompt in emailing back.

I'd have to give this another 10 overall. This really is a compact solution that delivers enough power for all of my pedals with no problems whatsoever.

It's a power supply. With a lot of amps. So it can handle a lot of pedals, via daisy-chain plugs. Very straightforward.

Here's the rub.
If you use a lot of pedals, including for gain, and run your amp clean, no problem, it's very quiet.
If like me you use a high gain amp, and use pedals just for colour, beware. Pedals in front of the amp can lead to a very annoying hum, which gets worse with volume and gain.
I couldn't bear it after a while.
Shame, but if batteries are silent, you want a power supply that does the same.

No issues with reliability. Just the blasted hum.

After a slow start, CS became pretty good. A second model was sent, and even though the problem of hum remained, at least the owner tried.
Don't try email though, use his mobile (on the website).

Well, it's compact, and simple to use. If it weren't for the hum I'd be happy.
Instead, I've returned the unit, am awaiting a refund, and will be investing in a BBE Supa Charger.

Now that's quiet.

As a power supply this is very easy to use. Just plug in and go! It's not too big so it fits nicely on the corner of my pedalboard. Just attach your daisy chains (it can power more than 20 pedals!!!) and the appropriate converters for those pesky pedals which don't use the standard boss negative tip power adapters, which can too be bought from Diago for a reasonable price and get down to making sweet pedal fuelled music, without any worry of your batteries running out ever again. If you plan to travel, just contact Diago and buy an appropriate power adaptor, it can be used anywhere in the world! I power 9 pedals (some quite power demanding) and I have had no troubles with it at all. At 3000ma neither should you!

Absolutely fantastic. No hum, no annoying noise, just 100% pure clean power. No issues with old or new pedals alike. This happily powers my entire pedalboard and retains my pure, clean signal without degrading it as some cheaper wallwarts may.

From experience, it is very reliable. My only concern, that fundamentally as a daisy chain, the power outlets are not isolated, which could mean that ALL your pedals could lose power, not just one or two in comparison with a brick style power supply malfunctioning, such as the Gator G-Bus. Even so I have no worries about this power supply and I have total confidence in it. I'm sure my pedals would break long before this thing stopped pumping out juice.

James is fantastic, very pleasent and easy to deal with and he really will do whatever he can to make your transaction as easy and pain free as possible. He was in contact every step of the way and when I had issues with board I bought from him he made every effort to resolve the issue, at his own personal cost. Top notch customer service!

Overall I would say this is a fantastic powersupply that will suit the needs of the minimalistic through to virtuoso gearheads, sporting a stupid number of pedals. Say goodbye to batteries forever! It's simple, clean, reliable and perhaps most importantly it's comparitively cheap. It doesn't hog space on your pedalboard or break your back with a stupid weight, it's small effective and seems to be fast becoming the number one choice of power for players in the UK.

What is there to say - it's a power supply. You plug it into your effects, and they work. It can manage a lot of effects with multiple daisy chains, and deliver a substantial amount of current.
It can handle most variations of power socket, and polarities, that different manufacturers of effects come up with, although you may have to purchase extra bits to do this. And it's quite small.

Here lies the problem. I suspect that most customers use a clean amp, and get the bulk of their sound, drive etc, from pedals.
I use a 2 channel amp, get my drive from that, and colour it with the pedals. For clean and crunch sounds, no problem. But for high gain sounds, there is a hum. Again, not a problem for effects in the loop, but can be a bit noisy if you put a pedal or two in front of the amp, and try and do both and it howls. Presumably some sort of ground loop.

So for pedalheads, go for it. For those who love the gain only a valve amp can give, just bear this in mind.
I have a pal who uses a Marshall DSL and he loves his powerstation, but he only uses the clean channel.

Never failed on me yet.

This is the good bit. Contacted the designer, who after a chat did his best to solve the problem (although it did take 2 months), culminating in me receiving a prototype for a new design.
Still didn't solve the problem, so I now use both old and new, one for in-front FX and one for loop.
A hassle (2 plugs), but cheaper than blowing ??140+ on a Voodoo Labs or a BBE.

Been playing for over 25 years, pop, rock, blues, metal, country - whatever.
Recently moved from modellers to a valve amp, and the difference in tone is unbelievable. So trying to keep effects to a minimum, but thought a power supply would be less bother than batteries. But batteries are silent, and that's what you want from a power supply. Got this on recommendation, but hasn't lived up to expectations. Now got a workable solution, but still a compromise. This is probably better than you average daisy chain wall wart, but for my purposes still not exactly what I want.
Will keep for now, and see what happens.

Simple to use, plug the daisy chain in, plug the daisy chain into pedals, plug it into the wall, switch on, away you go

As said previously, completely noiseless operation (due to the switching technology I believe)

Its rated at 3000mA so I havent even got close to overloading it, but it does deal well with high drain pedals like Zoom's UF-01 which is sapping 300mA alone (almost a whole power brick to itself) and Aphex's Punch Factory and Aural Exciter which can both be run on a variety of voltages and currents.
I would happily gig without a backup

Excellent, I had questions they answered them, top stuff

I play rock, punk, funk, reggae and sometimes jamming just goes in some crazy directions. I have been playing for more than 10 years, and using effects for at least 5, I previously used a DC Power Brick and that kept tripping out and letting me down. I would replace this immediately if lost or stolen. Its small size is great and it is an unobtrusive addition to any pedal board. There is nothing else in this price band to compete with this power supply.

So easy it's child's play, fixed to my board and plugged in my effects pedals - job done

Not really applicable but one point is that it creates 0 background noise so top marks

Can't see it letting me down so would gig without backup

Turned up next day after ordering and Diago were very helpful with a couple of compatability queries I had prior to purchase

10 out of 10 from me - lightweight and small, doesn't create background noise or overheat so does the job perfectly for me

Buy one!

What is there to do wrong with this? You plug it into the mains, and it is on. From there, you plug the daisy chains into the pedals, and they are powered. I can't see how this could be simpler.

The Powerstation has been consistently quiet through every single amp I have used with it, and with every pedal I have used. I have no complaints here - it does what it is supposed to!

I've used the Powerstation for around two years now, and it has happily sat in my pedalboard through being thrown into vans and venues, and put through hours of abuse. It still never misses a beat. I wouldn't hesitate to go to a gig without a supply of batteries as long as I have my Powerstation - I haven't needed anything else in 2 years, and I think it will just keep going :)

I have dealt with Diago for a few things (not related to the powerstation however) and they have been nothing but helpful - James has always been (mostly) swift with his responses, and it is obvious that the company cares about providing quality products.

For the price, I don't think that this can be beaten. There isn't much to evaluate due to the nature of the product, but it throws out an obscene amount of power, takes up virtually no space on my pedalboard and just keeps on going. I have tried other power supplies which look similar, only to find they are significantly noisier - I am very happy with my Diago powerstation, and I would definitely buy a new one if it were stolen.

You don't really get much easier than this. You connect the daisy chain to the pedals and powerstation, the mains cable and turn it on!

I also bought the adaptor for my EHX small clone which was top notch.

Its small and takes up very little room plus the detachable mains cable is better than having a wall wart.

No hum and i powered 10 pedals with it until i slimmed my board down. All various makes. It does power my Echopark but can end up with clocking sometimes but his is a known problem and Diago state that it will not work on the website.

Had it about a year and its never let me down.

Only used them once to check that the power pump was usable with the blowtorch.

the website is very good and answers most questions.

Its a great peice of kit plus all the adaptors are available. I'm very much of the 'buy it right first time' camp even if it does cost a bit more.

There are cheaper alternatives out there but i will always recommend the DIago.

Just plug in and go. Its small size means it takes up very little room on your pedal board, and the various adaptors available make it especially easy to use with pedals requiring different voltages etc. I can therefore run my Full-tone MOSFET Drive 2 on 18 volts without having to use a separate power supply, which is a real bonus. Although so far I've had no cause to use it outside of the UK, it's very useful to know that you can plug it into any mains voltage.

I use this with a relatively simple set up (5 pedals including tuner) and have experienced no discernable noise or interference.

I've had this power unit going for a year now and have used it for umpteen gigs. It's been 100% reliable so far. At one point I was inadvertantly shorting it out, in which circumstances it just cuts out and comes back on when the problem is gone without any damage to the unit.

I have found the owner of the company to be very quick and helpful in answering any questions I've had about the unit.

It's really impossible to fault this product or the service, and the price is very reasaonble.

Easy to use, just plug in and away you go. The adapters are easy to use aswell for effects that have different size power connectors.

I'm relatively new to using multiples of effects. I find that in a chain straight from guitar, through the effects and into input of the amp then i had a slight buzz when i turned on the CE-20 chorus pedal. However, i have now put most of the effects through the effects loop and the buzz has gone.

It hasn't let me down at all. I have a load of batteries in the bag just in case.

Had no problems, so i haven't had to deal with the customer support services, but the speed of delivery on ordering was very quick, and the item was packaged well.

Most of the time i play a Les Paul Classic with a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifer through a 1960 Marshall 4x12. The effects i use are, Morley Wah, MXR phase 90, Boss TR-2 Tremelo, Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi, Boss DD-20 Giga Delay and Boss CE-20 Chorus Ensemble.
The combination of these effects caused a buzz wehn in a direct line to the main input of the amp, and through trial and error it pin pointed the problem with the chorus and big muff pedals. I now have the chorus, delay & tremelo through the effects loop, and the rest into the main input on the amp. I'm not sure if this is a standard procedure, but it seams to have done the trick regarding the buzz.
All in all the Diago Powerstation has reduced the amount of space required and the cost of batteries which can mount up very quickly. So all in it has to be great value for money and i am very pleased with the purchase which i have now had for 18 months.