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I am starting to use a rack/power amp/speaker cab system and picked up one of the Furman PST-8 to protect my gear. As you can see, it's a big strip. I have preamps, analog and digital effects units and equalizers (some gear from the 70s and 80s).

Question - Whenever I go to play clubs, there's usually cheap strips the club provides, sometimes these are fixed, and the wall outlet is not an option. How do you guys approach this situation? I know that generally, you are not supposed to plug a strip (the furman) into another strip, but is that a better than plugging into the club's $8 power strip from Home Depot? I just spent a fortune on these old racks and would like to be certain that they won't be damaged by something coming out of the wall. Thoughts? Thanks.

a $10 plug circuit tester like this could be cheap gear & life insurance if the clubs handyman is not very handy https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial ... 206029154

>> As you can see, it's a big strip.

Did you mean to insert a pic?

To power condition or not... Great question. And IMO, that's a band question

For over 10 years ran a rack system with a power conditioner. Realized I was the only 1. Most the sound guys used random power strips throughout the bar.

IMO, in an ideal world, the band would have a have a couple and all players plug in there directly.

But nowadays, I'm a 2 part person:
1) outlet tester like reco'd above (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AK ... UTF8&psc=1)
2) Furman power strip (https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... -2x3-block)

IMO, this is enough for me. I won't plug into a shitty outlet. And if there's a power issue, it's likely impacting the whole venue so the whole show will need to pause, correct, resume.