Power supply?

There should be a socket, on your pedal, to accept a power supply (usually 9V, but a couple - some Danelectros, certainly - have 18V). Plug it in and it replaces your batteries as the power supply.
Warning: Check the instructions about running the pedal with batteries AND power supply. It may be that you have to remove batteries, if you're using a power supply.
You can buy multi power supplies, that will feed several pedals, which will, probably, work out much cheaper than one supply for each pedal.

also be mindful of the plug ground positin on the stomp box.
there usually is a small diagram located near the plug in. Boss and Digitech have specific ground confgurations.

I used a power supply bught from the store. it works well with my Boss boxes.
damn thing was noisy tho. so nopw I stick to batteries again.
it's a drag because some boxes eat batteries like there is no tomorrow..

I just remember to unplug the jack from the input side. once a jack is plugged in the box is using power.

I use a basic adapter into an Ibanez powersplitter, feeds up to five pedals.

Most pedal power supplys don't charge the batteries in the pedals. I recommend getting the power supply that is designed for that particular pedal. Because some pedals or effects are different an some have adapters that has +, -, and ground. However myself included do use other adapters to run the pedals. There are a few pedal boards that have built in power.

Joe

i just bout a powerlab power bank to power my pedals and since using it its really brought out noise, anyone heard of somethin that goes between the power lab and the pedals to reduce noise, or any other way to reduce it without forkin out loads of money on a pedal noise suppressor?????

there might be a noise gate or suppressor you could add.

I couldnt stand the noise any longer. all units I tried couldnt cut it.
that's why I went back to batteries. :(

I bought a 1 Spot ( Here ) and I'm very happy with it. It'll power up to 5 pedals and didn't introduce any noise. It's just about the cost of 1 or 2 regular adapters too.

Jason

From a design perspective, there's a lot of difference in power supply design.
In brief, it's difficult to suppress the AC from bleeding through, which is called ripple.
This gets worse with bigger loads (i.e. more pedals).

In general, higher priced and quality brands may actually be worthwhile here.
(i.e. Forget about Radio Shack, etc).