yeah, I told about resistors because I’m almost sure that some of those PSU have one voltage regulator for each output, and all of them should be separated from the ground by resistors. but yeah, that’s not very different. same idea.
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i have spent a ton of time and money chasing my stupid tail over these pedal power requirements. my mooer radar takes 12V 300 mA. my bassbones preamp takes 15V 400 mA reverse polarity (!). i thought i had my problems solved when i bought a power supply that has an outlet specifically made for the bassbones and similar, the cioks dc10. all was well. until 2 days ago. i started noticing that volume output had fallen off a cliff, not good. and then while trying to figure out what was going on a gigantic pop came down the line and my brand new amp went into protection. i thought i had fried it. it appears that no power supply that is fully loaded with effects can produce the steady stream of power that these pedals require. so once again, i’m thinking about just dumping this stupid preamp pedal. this is the 3rd time i’ve had this pedal and tried to make it work, btw. and finally something that tdub had said made sense. obviously all these pedals work completely fine with their supplied wall worts. i didn’t want to have to run multiple cords out of my pedal board into the wall though. so i just simply bought a cheap small power strip to velcro onto the bottom of my board. i will run my odd pedals on it and also plug the power supply into it, so only one cord will run to my board from the wall still, for the power strip. it arrives today, so i cannot see anything going wrong with this plan. 
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Got one myself and I really like it. There’s some good utilities like FX Floorboard that gives you really good control and makes it easy to deal with the patches…
There’s also a good set of comprehensive patches you can get from vguitarforums
Although you do need to setup an account.
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just got my zoom B3n today, loving this thing, can’t wait to get my GT-10B next week!!!
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Yeah that’s a great ME processor. I loved mine while I had it.
it is gonna take some time to figure out how to use this thing though, but I having alot fun with the arpeggiator on it tonight
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Best advice I have is to not spend a ton of time with the preset patches and just start making your own little pedal chains in stompbox mode. It’s what it is best at and a ton of the individual effects are great. Only about half of the preset patches are any good IMO, but they are basically just demos. The real power of the thing is all the individual effects models.
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I will start that tomorrow for sure, I am looking forward to chaining this to my Boss GT-10B that I ordered
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Wow, that is being VERY GENEROUS 
Yeah, great unit, but I found the same as most everybody else, not alot of the presets are any good, and many that are good, have similar sounds / qualities.
You did get yours used tho, right?
It is possible you had somebody that made a bunch of their own patches and did not factory re-set it before selling it, so you might fins interesting patches if that is the case
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I swear if I see another fool demoing tube-sound character pedals into a tube amp I am gonna go on a rampage.
Why yes, that VT Bass DI does sound kind of tubey going in to a miked SVT. I wonder why? 
Even if it is a solid state SVT it’s probably adding more tonal character than the pedal.
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I actually looked and alas, no, they reset it, but I’ve been playing with it, this is gonna be hours of tinkering and fun
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… many, many hours
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I have already had a few hours playing with it, it is definitely more complex than I thought, but It is fun to play with for sure
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You should download ToneLib Zoom, huge help in playing with the thing and better than the official Zoom software. See the OP here:
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just downloaded it I will try it for sure!!!
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I second that, zoom pedals for me are unusable without that software. Makes it a million times easier.
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I can’t figure out why, but my Mac won’t let me boot the program, it’s saying it can be verified
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This may fix that.
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and sadly now the pedal is not connecting the software is saying unable to read zoom b3n presets, GAH!!!
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I wish I could help you with this, but I can’t. I stay as far away from Apple products as I can, but there are a few Mac heads on the forum who can help you.
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