Noise gate question

hey this is going to sound really dumb but I'm deciding between the Stone Deaf Fig Fumb and the JHS Muffelata. One pro of the fig fumb is the noise gate so i was wondering: does the noise gate only work on the fig fumb, or will it help all the pedals before it in the chain? thanks, sorry for the nooby question haha

'help' is a relative term and I would debate whether the inclusion of that gate is a 'pro', however to answer your question a gate will effect everything preceeding it... imagine a magic elf that mutes your signal whenever the input signal drops below a set volume, that's what a gate does. so anything being fed into the gate circuit as part of your signal whether its from the distortion circuit in the fig fumb or from pedals earlier in the chain? the gate effects and if its a good circuit that you've set up properly it will silence that noise when you stop playing. That said, if tis a true bypass pedal I would suspect that the gate disengages with the distortion circuit so unless you're stacking a bunch of dirt into the fig fumb the gate may be largely irrelevent in practice. Look up more about gating in general as a studioe ffect and then look up guitar gates. They are a polarizing topic because they really mutilate the shape of your attack and decay and can also be a tone suck if the detection circuit is not designed VERY well. Even in studio ahrdware there are a lot of gates that act as a double edged sword because of their tendency to change the frequency response of the soruce amterial. Software gates are far more pelasing then the average hardware gate.

In our tests we loved the ISP Decimator II as a "premium" option. Have you considered that one?

great thanks for the help guys, ill definitly look at the isp!