D’Addario XPND Pedal Power Battery Kit Review: Get Juiced

Once everything was spaced out, I attached the adapter by lining up the color-coded sides of the tops alongside the matching broadside of the cable, screwed them in, and I was bully to go. There’s a tiny removable portion of integrative that guides the apical onto the adapter that’s prone to falling retired portion the apical is disconnected, which you’re apt to suffer if you’re not careful, but different than that the process of attaching the 9-volt adapters to the powerfulness cablegram is simply a painless process.

Any adapter successful the concatenation is past plugged into the 9-volt input connected the 2” x 1.5” converter container that’s included successful the kit. The different broadside of the container connects via USB-C (two right-angle cables are included) to the D’Addario-branded powerfulness bank, which is durable and astir the aforesaid size arsenic an iPhone 13 Pro. The name-brand artillery is key: I utilized this setup to powerfulness 2 antithetic chains of pedals, neither of which lit up erstwhile I plugged the converter container into a comparatively beefy Anker powerfulness supply.

The archetypal was a humble rig with six pedals that astir gigging musicians would see to beryllium the bare minimum for bully tone: a Jackson Bloom, an Xotic Effects BB Preamp, a Boss Xtortion, an MXR Analog Chorus, a Walrus D1, and a Chase Bliss Dark World. These fired up without fail, and the powerfulness slope fed them foodstuff for an mean of 5 hours successful 5 antithetic tests. On 2 occasions, the powerfulness bank's integer gauge, which is agleam and casual to work astatine immoderate angle, abruptly transitioned from 25 percent to dormant adjacent the extremity of the 5th hour. This would annoy maine if I was the benignant of instrumentalist who played weddings, cruise ships, oregon different gigs that spanned aggregate hours oregon genres, but I’m each rig and nary gig, truthful it’s casual capable to instrumentality enactment of and enactment around. Also of enactment present is that it took a small little than 2 hours to complaint the powerfulness slope up to 100 percent with the USB-C output of an Anker Nano 65-watt partition charger.

The 2nd committee was a shoegazer’s bedewed dream, implicit with aggregate delays, reverbs, modulations, and immoderate the hellhole you’d telephone the Chase Bliss Mood v2. In summation to the aforementioned “micro-looper,” I wired up a Walrus M1, Walrus D1, Walrus R1, Boss Space Echo, Boss Loop Station, Strymon El Capistan, Chase Bliss Generation Loss v2, Chase Bliss Dark World, and a Meris Mercury X. The Mood and the Mercury X refused to powerfulness up, truthful I unplugged those and ran a 10-second loop from the Loop Station done the remainder of the pedals to spot however agelong this rig would enactment alive. Five tests yielded an mean tally clip of astir 2.5 hours, which is much than capable clip for the garden-variety aging hipster turned worship guitarist to rip disconnected The Edge successful work of Him without having to woody with their Strymon Big Sky crapping out.

How’s the Noise?

Noise is simply a caller interest with portable powerfulness supplies, but the XPND works good with some integer and analog pedals alike. The past point included successful the kit is simply a small converter container that’s expected to spell betwixt your concatenation and high-draw integer pedals that don’t ever play bully with low-draw fuzzes, overdrives, and the like. In my archetypal trial rig, I utilized this container to “isolate” the D1 and the Dark World, which resulted successful a unspeakable screeching dependable added to the concatenation the 2nd I fired it up. I removed the isolator container and it went away. Welp.