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Yes! All the way back in 2000-2001. Unlike 1 SPOT knock-offs, we designed our power supply from scratch and we’ve been continuously improving the 1 SPOT circuit whenever possible over the years.

I designed the switches to be close enough together so you can hit them both with your foot at the same time if you want to. That means you can turn them both On or Off, or if one channel is already On, hit both switches at the same time to turn the one Off…

Yes, I think we’ve seen them all by now. For the record, it’s JEKYLL .

They do now! The V3 Series pedals include true bypass as an option that you can use with or without our Pure Tone buffer. However, we’ve done true bypass our way, which is reliable and quiet. We designed our own “Forever Footswitch” which has a Lifetime Warranty along with the rest of the pedal… it…

The Ross and Dyna Comp circuits are almost identical to each other (except for maybe one resistor and one capacitor). However, the Route 66 takes those designs and combines them with our Pure Tone buffer, an original tone circuit, a pre-amp circuit and a Clean Mix circuit, giving it far more flexibility and clean headroom…

The 1 SPOT cannot be used to power multiple LINE 6 ToneCore Pedals, possibly due to inadequate power supply filtering in the pedals. A 1 SPOT can be used with one Tone Core Pedal with only a minimal amount of noise. More than one Tone Core pedal on a daisy chain causes too much noise…

Old-style fuzz pedals use PNP germanium transistors which are electrically opposite polarity to every other pedal you have, so they must be run on a separate power supply. Most people who have a pedal(s) like that, run them off a second 1 SPOT. That way, you’re still not using up valuable pedalboard space or power…

There are very few pedals that are designed to take AC voltage (vs. DC voltage). If you feed your 9VDC (battery voltage) pedal AC, it usually will destroy much of the electronics. Once in a while, the pedal will survive, needing only minor repairs. However, most of the time the entire circuit board needs to…

What is “Made in USA”? The Federal Trade Commission of the United States requires that “all or virtually all” parts and labor cost of a product be of USA origin in order to carry a “Made in USA” marking or claim. The FTC says: “All or virtually all” means that all significant parts and processing…

We have used the 1 SPOT (as have thousands of other people) with just about all the Boss pedals and they normally work fine together. The Boss PSA adapter puts out about 9.6VDC and so does the 1 SPOT. The 1 SPOT also has circuit protection built into it so that it really can’t pass…

For the first 45 seconds after applying power to the pedal, the sound of foot-switch pop is normal, due to the time it takes for power supply filter capacitors to charge fully. After that, unlike ordinary true-bypass switches, switch pop goes away.