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11-24-2011, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | Boss NS-2
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I'm looking for a noise gate and this is in my price range. Has anyone here used one and if so, is it a good pedal? |
11-24-2011, 04:49 PM
|  | I promised myself I would stop buying pedals | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Perth, Australia | | | NS-2 is the only dedicated noise gate I've used but I reckon it's great.
You can put it at a specific point in your chain or you can put your fx in its loop, so that your clean signal determines whether it's open or not, instead of your wet signal.
Also it has two modes - off/suppress or suppress/mute.
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11-25-2011, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by alec  NS-2 is the only dedicated noise gate I've used but I reckon it's great.
You can put it at a specific point in your chain or you can put your fx in its loop, so that your clean signal determines whether it's open or not, instead of your wet signal.
Also it has two modes - off/suppress or suppress/mute. | THanks for the info. Does it affect the tone of your bass at all? |
11-25-2011, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Duluth, MN | | | There's one for sale in the TB Classifieds right now. |
11-25-2011, 07:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob C There's one for sale in the TB Classifieds right now. | Thanks but shipping it to Canada would not likely save me any money. |
11-25-2011, 07:39 AM
|  | Faith, Family, Fitness, and Frets | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New Jersey | | | This is a GREAT pedal. I've used this for 25 plus years. I keep my tuner first, and then run the balance of my pedals in a loop into the NS-2, using this as a gate and a mute. It can affect your tone depending on where you set the threshold. You need to use it, experiment, and find out what works for you.
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11-25-2011, 07:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: St. Marys, Ohio | | | I have been using one for about 5 yrs, and I love it. Just like the post above, find the right setting, which isn't difficult, and it will not compromise tone.
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11-25-2011, 07:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Commreman This is a GREAT pedal. I've used this for 25 plus years. I keep my tuner first, and then run the balance of my pedals in a loop into the NS-2, using this as a gate and a mute. It can affect your tone depending on where you set the threshold. You need to use it, experiment, and find out what works for you. | Good info. I have a Godin Shifter and it has 3 single coil pickups. Some of the pickup combinations are fairly quiet and some are quite noisy so I'm looking for a solution for live and recording that mutes that single coil hum. |
11-28-2011, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan | | | Great pedal. Only had mine about two months, but no complaints here other than that it's a little hard to get it properly working. But now it's fine! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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