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Old 02-01-2016, 06:53 AM
Teknoss Teknoss is offline
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Default Anyone using a noise reduction pedal?

Anyone using a noise reduction pedal?
Or noise gate?
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Old 02-01-2016, 08:33 AM
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Any reason why you're looking into a noise gate?

An acoustic pickup signal should be pretty clean with a low noise floor.
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Old 02-01-2016, 08:51 AM
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I am not, and having used a number of acoustic pickups, DI boxes, pre-amps, etc., I have never encountered the need for a noise reduction pedal. If you are having significant signal noise, my suspicion is that there is a more fundamental issue to be resolved in the signal path.
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Old 02-01-2016, 09:11 AM
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Well, I'm using a few pedals for my guitar, (yes, it's a pedalboard for acoustic)
and when using pedals for example a compressor it raises the noise floor.
I hate that hiss, and I'm using good cables, (mogami) and a insolated outputs power supply.
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Old 02-01-2016, 11:17 AM
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I hear you, even my Taylor T5z has a little bit of hiss if you turn it way up, so if I was using a compressor as aggressively as it sounds like you are I would use a noise gate too.

I might be tempted to fiddle with the compressor settings first, so it doesn't bring the low end up as much, but if you need your compressor set that way then a noise gate sounds like what you want.
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Old 02-02-2016, 05:42 PM
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I'm using the Rocktron Micro Hush Noise Reduction pedal.
It's amazing! I'm very picky and I don't want any hiss noise on my signal path.
This pedal helps a lot.
I tried several gate pedals and I realize that this it's the best for acoustic.
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