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RRV-10
Silver Member
Australia
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 Posted - 11/01/2006 : 11:28:07
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| I've never had need for a noise suppressor in the past, so have no experience with them, but I've just got a flanger pedal that's particularly noisy at the bottom of its sweep that's iritatingly audiable when playing clean. Could the NS-2 minimise this hiss so I couldn't hear it when playing clean? Or are noise suppressors just gates that inhibit noise when you're not playing but have no effect on bad signal/noise ratios when you are playing? |
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
2232 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2006 : 13:39:12
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| they really only clean up feedback when youre not playing. although i find that my NS-2 gives my a decent clean boost when turned on. but whenever theres signal passing through, the NS-2 isnt killing any noise so i dont think it could help your flanger problem. you might be able to "EQ" it out. |
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controlfreak
Silver Member
Ireland
337 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2006 : 16:36:39
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| try to locate where the noise is coming from. it could be your power supply. i had a cheap 9V adaptor before that caused a lot of background noise with pedals. |
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mattoqua
Silver Member
Canada
438 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2006 : 03:27:19
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Would you put the NS-2 at the beginning or at the end of the chain?
I assume its at the end, but im running 3 distortions at a time and dont want to loose anything from that.
When i mute my guitar my amp goes crazy with a snow sound thats as loud as my guitar
For the power, i use 2 PSA-120T to power up 7 boss pedals and a crybaby. Would getting a brick/TU-2/PSM-5 help a lot, or is the difference not that big
If i turn off the other distortions leaving only the DS-1, its absolute silence |
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bosshog
Silver Member
Canada
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Posted - 11/02/2006 : 04:59:38
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I use the NS-2 at the end of my chain and it does quite a bit of good. I usually keep the first knob on full and the second at around 11:00.
It is possible that tis pedal can cut your signal considerably but the only real way is to try. I would recommended the NS-2...
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
2232 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 00:18:29
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i use it first in my chain. this thing is a life saver. i was weary of buying it at first due to my lousy NF-1 experience.
the NS-2 will work for you as long is its set up right. even if you use hi gain pedals such as FZ-2s and MT-2s it kills the feedback. the only time ive ever heard it let feedback through was when i had a ridiculous amount of gain going through (4 DS-1s). it was just for test purposes anyway. its almost a must if you play in a live setting. |
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RRV-10
Silver Member
Australia
246 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 00:44:24
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| Thanks for the replies. I figured as much, but since it was labelled a noise supporessor rather than a noise gate I thought maybe it was technology that might somehow be able to detect the BBD hiss from the signal when playing and eliminate only the hiss. I'm not sure if the ISP Decimator is any better. They have a comparison clip on their website where you can hear gain pedal hiss behind the guitar in the first clip, but can't in the second clip after they've turned the pedal on. That's what I want to do, but whether it'd work on a modulation pedal I don't know, and I'm not rolling in enough money to buy one just to see? I've emailed ISP but haven't received a response yet. I suppose I could always boost the input to raise the signal and cut the 8-16k frequencies after the effect to minimise the hiss. |
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mattoqua
Silver Member
Canada
438 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 02:13:07
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I use DS-1, DF-2, MT-2 as my distortion chain, so I have a high gain, and a feedbacker
what happens with the feedback effect? Would i have to turn it off every time i go for the DF-2?
(its brand new, and i dont play live, so i use it a lot) |
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
2232 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 03:41:19
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| i dont know what would happen. if it gave you problems, i would try putting the MT-2 and DS-1 in the noise supression chain and have the DF-2 after the loop. that way you could still use the feedback feature. |
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
2232 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 03:46:11
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| actually come to think of it, you would want the DF-2 BEFORE the NS-2 chain because i dont think the feedbacker works if any distortion is being used after it. |
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mattoqua
Silver Member
Canada
438 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2006 : 20:10:54
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do you mean that the DF-2 wont feedback well with distortion before it? (and to put it before the distortion chain?)
Right now i have it in the middle DS-1>DF-2>MT-2 |
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Boss NS-2: How's it work?
