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Just wondering, there's very few of them in the show yer pedalboard thread. I'm not even sure where I stand. I'm trying to sell my rocktron Hush, it's been so long since I used it that I don't even really remember what it did for me.


a) Don't need one. Good cables/plugs give you a virtually hiss/buzz free board.

b) Get over it. Couldn't care less, a little noise is a small trade off.

c) I'm rocking a huge board, and my noisy ass signal chain could probably use a good noise gate of some sort, but I can't bring myself to spend precious fuzz money or board space on something that's essentially just a tool.

d) There's no such thing as a good noise gate. There's always some sort of unwanted side effect that'll annoy me almost as much as the noise or hiss. I'm too picky about my tone, I'm not willing to make even the slightest trade off.

e) Noise reduction pedal is an effective way to clean up your signal, a good one can do wonders for a hiss/buzz free pedalboard.

We think they reduce noise?

I really don't see the point in them, personally.
When I don't want to hear hiss and growl, I turn my pedals off.

PetZounds wrote:I really don't see the point in them, personally.
When I don't want to hear hiss and growl, I turn my pedals off.

Yeah, that's when your board is noise free when all your pedals are off. When we're talking about a noisy chain even when none of your pedals are on...I guess it makes sense to address plug/cable/ground issues and fix the problem rather than covering it up...Right?

Wait. Does it make my pedals true bypass more? Cause I want that.

jwar wrote:Wait. Does it make my pedals true bypass more? Cause I want that.

Awesome idea for a pedlol. "true-er bypassed". Put it at the end of your chain and magically make all yer peds EXTRA true bypass.

Noise reduction?

frigid midget wrote:

PetZounds wrote:I really don't see the point in them, personally.
When I don't want to hear hiss and growl, I turn my pedals off.

Yeah, that's when your board is noise free when all your pedals are off. When we're talking about a noisy chain even when none of your pedals are on...I guess it makes sense to address plug/cable/ground issues and fix the problem rather than covering it up...Right?

That, pretty much. I've noticed that my rig is only noisy sometimes, depending on what outlet I use from location to location. I need to upgrade some cables for sure though

I played with a rack noise gate/compressor for a while in the 90s and I hated the way it fizzled out my sound. It is probably your cables or power supply. just put a buffer between every pedal for the toanz

I really hate polishing turds, so I just make sure I don't have noise in the first place

Fuzz_Pi wrote:I really hate polishing turds, so I just make sure I don't have noise in the first place

This. There's lots of places you can get rid of noise without having to resort to a gate. Correctly shielded guitar, potted pickups, mechanically solid cables, no ground loops, well filtered supply (to pedals), good power supply (to your power supply! - I use an EMI filter that I got from Clas Ohlson for like 20 euros and it's good - surge protection and reduces hum from shit power), good tubes...

I have noise with everything bypassed. The engineer of the first album thought it sounded so cool he recorded it while we got lunch and put it between songs on the album to emulate a live show.

I thought getting rid of my ehx would diminish it and it didn't...now I think it might be on account of the 1spot...might be ground loop from running two amps...I would like to rid myself of it, but it's not a big enough deal that I wanna pay money for it. Hopefully, I'll get a isolated power supply and this will fix it. Perhaps an a/b/y that kills ground loop hum. Not getting a noise gate doe.

Goroth mentioned tubes.
Lots of hiss and noise can be indicative of tubes about to shit themselves.
Ain't no pedal for that.

All I think is "why?"