Diago Powerstation

Straightforward, solid unit and cabling. One small gripe would be that the daisy chain had longer cable runs between each output barrel.

Powering a chain of Sansamp prog. Bass Driver DI, Tech 21 compressor, Marshall distortion pedal and Korg tuner, there is no discernible noise from any of these units and all are lit up nicely.

Only had it a few days so can't vouch for its reliabilty yet.

Had no need to contact them thus far, but the item was shipped quickly and securely packaged.

This power supply unit is small, neat and seems well put-together. It won't take up much space on a pedal board and it's quiet - job done.

This thing claims to be hum/noise free but i'm afraid this is NOT the case! The powerstation is just as noisy if not more than my old Power Bank which costs ??20! After all the reviews and claims I decided to take a chance and buy one, well I can definately say with 100% confidence that these things DO infact add a loud very noticable hum to your signal.

I use Boss pedals and have tested the cables, guitars, pedals and everything and when I remove the power supply away and use batteries for power then the humming stops. It's only when I connect the powerstation that the humming appears.

I'm contacting them for a refund so I will find out soon enough.

For the price that this thing is selling for it's definately not worth the money, if you want power and can bare alot of hum then use a Power Bank or the cheapest thing you can find because this is just as useless as the cheap powersupplies, only more expensive!

I'm going to try a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 now, they are very expensive, but if it gets rid of the hum then it'll be worth it.

Ignore the other reviews here as they are either people from Diago or really dont know what theyre talking about!

No mess, no problems just stick it down plug it in and your away... simple!.

ultimate pedal power, all my pedals are lit up like the sun. No hum or noise from the power unit, but how can it... its too small!

perfect for constand usage, just plug the unit in when you start and unplug it at the end.. works everytime with ultimate quality.

every time ive dealt with the guys at diago ive had no probs.. spot on guys cheers!

Great design, small and compact you hardly notice it when your playin. the green LED is all that needed to show you have power. daisy chains could be slightly longer but other than that best power unit ive used cheers guys!

Very easy to use. Just plug it in and go. Since it has a switched mode power supply it will work on any voltage. The power supply has a green LED on it so you can see when mains voltage is present.

It works with my pedals. No hum added to the signal. However, since it doesn't have separate isolated outputs there is a possibility it might not with all your gear. In fairness on the diago web site there is a compatibility chart.

It has been reliable so far. The unit is made of plastic so I guess there is a possibility it could break but it seems quite robust to me.

I bought my unit at the Music Live show and so got to speak with the person running the company. He was extremely knowledgeable and willing to take the time talking about pedals and power supplies.

Very good. The unit is small, it works, you can get adaptors for pretty much everything you could think of and the company that sells them is good to deal with.

Light, portable - takes up very little space on my pedalboard - does what it says on the tin with the minimum of fuss!

Quiet and delivers plenty power to my pedals (8 pedals in all including 2 Boss duo pedals each drawing 800 milliamps). Overall sound is excellent from the pedalboard.

Had it for almost a year now and no problems.

Already purchased a pedal board and case fron Diago - service prompt, friendly and efficient. No need yet for support due to the quality of the products.

Had a lot of gear over the last 40 years - played everything from Shadows, Beatles and Stones to Deep Purple, Eagles, Larry Carlton, Albert Lee, Johnny Hiland. Currently using a Tyler Mongoobastar (tele style)with Cornford Carrera. Mixture of Keeley, Boss and T Rex pedals.

Always chosen my gear carefully and would rate the Powerstation highly.

very easy to use! plug in and then patch your pedals up and away you go!
thats it...

this powersupply is fantastic as it has enough power to run a serious amount of effects on it...
i run 10 pedals on the chain including 2 tube screamers and a big muff which notoriously can put a buzz on your signal..
all pedals run at full power and no pedal has a lack of power distributed to it.
the powerstation is silent and is nice and small and doesnt take up room on your pedalboard like other power supplies do...
fantastic!!!
highly recommend it!

i use this thing about 5/6 times a week in rehersals/studios and large venues and it works no problems time in time out.
its a pretty solid little brick but if you valcro it done with decent valcro it will last...
i have taken mine all over the country and had no problems...

i have dealt with diago before and they were very polite and willing to help/talk and also listen to possible suggestions to make thier products even better than they already are!!

so far no repairs for me but if i did i think i would not have a problem getting a swift repsonse...

when i ordered the powerstation it arrived at my door the next day so they seem pretty committed to good service.

its great as its small and built to last, doesnt take up room on your board.
the daisy chain is fantastic as you can just keep the chain going.... allowing you to power minimal or maximum amount of effects...

for annoying pedal inputs such as ts808/elec HX they sell patch cables with the correct pins on the end which allow you to connect to the end of the daisy chain which makes things convienient and eliminates single power supplies for these pedals..

i have had a few other power supplies and this one is ay better in terms or size,power,convience and no buzz!!!!

This is a very easy to use power supply. Daisy chain your pedals and away you go. The great thing is this baby will power most pedals. If you go to diago website you will see a list of compatable pedals. Included in the list are the types of adaptors you would need to buy for certain pedals. For example a green adaptor for Line 6 Modelling stompboxes. A couple of my pedals did not appear on the list, so I emailed James at Diago and got a promt reply telling what adaptors I would need if any. What is really cool is that they do a right angled adaptor which has proved very useful for my morley wah and EVH phase 90. For some reason some manufactures place their power points on the side of the pedal.

It is hard to know if a power supply improves the sound of a chain of effects. However I do feel that my overall tone has improved. When I first powered up my pedals I was surprised at how good everything sounded. I suspect this is because my pedals are recieving proper power rather than a drained batt. One thing that has gone is some hum. I use a Line 6 DL4 with a dedicated power supply and was always bothered by low grade hum resulting in me having to turn up my noise gate significantly. Now that my effects cahin is powered by the powerstation this hum has gone. So overall I think things sound better but that may have been achieved by using new batts every time. Nevertheless I would have to say that things are sounding better.

Its hard to rate the reliability of a porduct that is relatively new. However it is backed by a money back promise if it doesn't power your pedals without noise. The connections seem sturdy and secure with a confidence inspiring tightness when joined. I can't imagine there is much can go wrong with a power supply. After a few gigs I choose to remove the batts form my pedals because it saved me removing the input jacks on my board all the time.

This is a seriously good company to deal with. I cannot fault them at all. They have responed to every email and phone call promtly. Gave excellent adivice when selecting items. A real first rate experience. When I was given my orginal quote James forgot to add 5 pounds onto the price for an extra daisy chain. He emailed me back giving me a code to take a fiver of the final price when I ordered on line. It only took 4 pounds off but when my order arrived there was a shiny 1 pound coin. I can't say much more than that.

I play in a christian worship band so use a lot of gentle tone mod effects. You know the pedals that need a batt changed almost every gig. My current set up is in the following order. route 66, morley wah, deathrattle, EVH phase 90 , Boss Trem, ME5 and finally Line6 DL4. Having this simple piece of kit along with a diago pedal board has made my life very easy. Overall this with the pedal board had been some of the best 150 pounds I have spent.

Dead simple, rating not really applicable to this unit. Plug it in, thread the daisy-chain connectors together and go.

Picture the scene: guitarist desperately trawls the Internet in search of a compact, compatible and cost-effective power-supply for his home-made pedalboard. All in vain. The available options are either too large, too expensive, or not powerful enough - or a mixture of all three. I had previously used two Boss PSA-240s into a plugboard, which was okay. Not too pricey (20 quid each), but those units stand up very high, which is no good for my converted flight-case pedalboard, because the lid won't shut. I could power seven or eight pedals between these two Boss units, but I want a DD-20 double-delay now, which requires yet another PSA-240 all to itself - and yet another 20 quid. Plus, the 3-input multiplug takes up a lot of space and the whole thing is an untidy, inefficient lash-up.

So imagine my pleasure and relief to come across Diago's website and their extremely nifty Powerstation. Here is a relatively tiny power-supply which provides up to 3000ma of juice and costs only fifty quid. That's many times the available power of an AC/DC Powerbank , much smaller than a Dunlop Power-Brick (aptly named), and a third of the full retail price of the Voodoo Lab unit. And Diago are UK based! Sorry anyone reading this elsewhere in the world, but we get the thin end of the wedge in terms of price here on Treasure Island, and very often in after-sales, too.

My board is fairly simple:

Boss TU-2 tuner,
Ernie Ball Volume Jr (doesn't need power),
Boss CS-3 compressor,
Boss TR-2 tremolo,
Marshall Bluesbreaker II,
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive,
MXR Smart Gate,
Boss DD-20.

I have weaned myself off the diluted, detuned and dated-sounding Chorus, thank God, but I occasionally use a Line Selector. So that's eight powered pedals and the rule of thumb is to have plenty of headroom - up to twice the available power than your pedal's combined draw. Mine's not a complicated signal-chain, but the Powerstation should deal with even a monster rig from the wildest imaginings of Cornish or Bradshaw.

Too early to judge. Seems very sturdy, hopefully nothing to go wrong, no moving parts. It is quiet, dead simple to use and compatible with any electrical voltage in the world without needing a transformer. I am a musician, not an engineer, so I'm not best
placed to judge. But if like me, you want to spend time and money shaping your actual guitar tone and not dicking around with the dingus that supplies the electricity, then this is your box.

Diago offer a full refund if the Powerstation causes any hum and you can't say fairer than that. Anything else is extra as far as I'm concerned. They responded helpfully to emails, and the Powerstation came prompt and postage-free.

The Powerstation deserves to become the industry standard. Diago have seized an obvious gap in the market and provided an almost- perfect solution to any guitarist's pedalboard needs. The unit is about the size of a cigarette packet, stands comfortably flatter than a standard Boss stomp-box and by itself will power the most elaborate rig. It does its job efficiently from a small corner of your pedalboard, and doesn't cost the earth. This rating should read 9.5. Nothing is perfect, but it is quite rare that any one piece of kit is SO much better than any of its rivals. I was resigned to forking over silly money for a Dunlop or Voodoo Lab rip-off box before my eyes were opened by a UK company, of all things, getting it right.

It's a powersupply, it really can't get easier...Just plug it in!
If you have 4 or more pedals, be sure to order an extra daisy chain (or get one in a store close to you) otherwise you will have to do some great puzzle work with the short daisy chain delivered...

Before I bought this, I used a standard 1.5-12V AC adapter..
My pedalboard: EHX Double Muff -> VoodooLab Sparkle Drive -> JD Cry Baby 95q -> EHX Small Clone -> Korg DT-10 -> Amp (Line6).
When activating one of the pedals, I used to get serious ammounts of annoying "hummmmmm"
Not with this little one!!
Totally quiet operation of all my pedals (excluding the hum generated by using high gain settings, but that is not due to the powersupply..).
One of my best investments ever!

I've been using it for 1.5 months now.
Done 2 gigs with it, even managed to short circuit my pedal board (putting input in output, you know, that kind of errors..) and the powerstation survived extremely well.
It looks sturdy, like those laptop power supply's

I've had great contacts with the owner of the store, James.
He was extremely friendly and helpfull!
Never had such a customer service before on an online shop.

It's +/- half the price of a similar product and delivers great value for money!!
It can deliver 3,000mA of power, you can order adapters for the line6 pedals, wah pedals, ehx pedals, ...

If it get's damaged/stolen, i will buy one again for sure!

The whole process of powering my pedals with this little thing was a doddle from start to finish. 1) Order and Pay 2) Pick it up from post office 3) Put the cables into the power unit 4) plug it in to your pedals. Worked first time, hasn't let me down yet, and I've left it 2 months to review it. And yes, it is silent. By which I mean the same level of noise as from using batteries - ideal!

I chose this power supply as I wanted silent power for a cheaper price than other power supplies. I'm powering 2 boss pedals, a marshall echohead, jim dunlop wah and a barber tonepress. The unit claims to be able to power much much more too....

Well, it hasn't let me down so far, and I've been using it regularly for two months. So I'm giving it an 8 as it hasn't been long enough to give it a 10.

They've been very helpful, and made me want to give them more business.

This little thing was the ideal purchase for pedal power. I use standard pedals, nothing bespoke, and I was shelling out a lot on 9v batteries. Forget that - buy this. Admittedly if you have a more complicated setup, you may find it doesn't power everything you have, but then again, they provide a wide range of adaptors, so it might! I would definitely buy this agin if it got pinched. They could however make the (included) 5 way daisy chain connector a bit longer. but then, it's not hard to get another one! I looked at the Jim Dunlop D.C. rick and the voodoo labs pedal power and ended up with this at a fraction of the price. Admittedly, power supplies aren't that exciting, but this is probably as exciting as they get.